Gov. Greg Abbott lacks the backbone to restrict assault rifle purchases. He’s scared of the extreme right flank of his party’s base, which rejects any form of gun control, columnist Gilbert Garcia writes.
Abbott doesn’t care. He’s scared of the extreme right flank of his party’s base, which rejects any form of gun control.
“And then after that, most recently, a federal court in the state of Texas stuck down a Texas law that banned people from buying a handgun.”At the moment, 18 states have laws on the books that ban firearm purchases by people under 21. In 2018, shortly after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, that state passed a bill requiring that purchasers of assault rifles be 21 or older. Then-Gov.
Even the judge who made the decision, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, stated that “Texas has a likelihood of success if the judgment is appealed to the Fifth Circuit.” “The fact is that Greg Abbott knows better,” Gutierrez said. “He is a lawyer, he has been the attorney general and he has been a justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He knows better than to try to perpetuate this fraud on the people of Texas. That legalese crap that he can’t do anything is just more of his feckless leadership on this issue and many others.
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