Texas lawmakers should look to existing hunting laws as a way to reduce gun violence.
about their heartbreaking losses and ongoing struggle to find Republican lawmakers who will discuss strengthening Texas’ gun laws.
Although I’ve never known the agony of losing a child to gun violence, I do know the frustration of lobbying the Texas Legislature, and I relate to anyone who visits the Capitol in the hope of having a meaningful dialogue with elected officials. As a longtime gun rights activist, I’m offering my perspective in the hope of fostering such a dialogue.of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech, I spent eight years helping convince the Legislature that because Texas already trusted license-to-carry, or LTC, holders to carry concealed handguns for personal protection in most other locations, it should trust them to do so on college campuses.
They raise a legitimate question, but I expect the GOP to have two problems with any legislation focused on assault-style weapons. First, Republicans aren’t going to back a law that lends credence to theAlthough the damage done by the Uvalde shooter’s AR-15 was unimaginably horrific, there is no reason to assume a shooting carried out with a semi-automatic hunting rifle would be less horrific.
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