The last mass shooting at a Texas school happened four years and six days ago, when 10 students were killed at Santa Fe High School, near Houston.
A few weeks later, on a trip to Dallas, Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a 40-page list of recommendations on how to keep schools safer.
A few weeks later, on a trip to Dallas, Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a 40-page list of recommendations on how to keep schools safer.
The recommendations, @lmcgaughy and I wrote, included more law enforcement at schools, hardening campuses, growing the school marshal program and expanding programs which provide mental health evaluations that identify students at risk of harming others.
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Among those recommendations were five related to “enhancing firearms safety” including “encouraging the legislature to study the possibility of creating a ‘red flag’ law to identify persons who are a danger to themselves or others and who either have access to or own firearms.”
While red flag laws were proposed and studied in the 2019 Lege, nothing came from it.
In 2021, the Legislature passed laws allowing for permitless carry.
In 2021, the Legislature passed laws allowing for permitless carry.
“You could say that I signed into law today some laws that protect gun rights, but today, I signed documents that instill freedom in the Lone Star State," Abbott said last year at a signing of seven of those bills.
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