The families of Robb Elementary shooting victims are demanding a special legislative session on an age limit to purchase automatic rifles.
Many at the rally on Saturday said they just want some sort of compromise on gun reform. They said they did anticipate taking a prominent role in an ongoing movement.Evan L'Roy / For The Texas TribuneShe said pushing for gun restrictions in a state that holds dear the constitutional right to firearms is exhausting but uplifting.
“He had no emotions or anything, just his overall demeanor was ‘I have to be here because I have to be here,’” Javier Cazares told the Tribune. Maggie Mireles Thomas, sister to Eva Mireles, speaks Saturday during a March for Our Lives protest at the Texas Capitol.When Maggie Mireles Thomas and her family met Abbott following the death of her sister,“I told him to his face, you can change these laws, that’s what you can do. And he said he would be hard at work to do that and that has not happened,” Mireles Thomas told the crowd. “He has not kept his word to my family and to any of these families.
“We were at his house, right over there; we were promised a lot of things, we asked for a lot of change, and nothing ever changed,” Stone told the roughly 300 gathered for the rally, pointing to the Governor’s Mansion, which stands only 1000 feet away from the Capitol steps. “I’m a conservative Republican, I’m a gun owner myself, but I can stand amongst Democrats and see the changes that need to be made.
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