Posted on 05/28/2022 8:54:53 AM PDT by RandFan
The debate over gun control is taking center stage in the Texas governor’s race after 21 people, 19 children and two adults, were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde earlier this week.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke made headlines on Wednesday when he confronted Gov. Greg Abbott (R) at a press conference, telling the Republican candidate that the mass shooting is ultimately “on him.”
The incident, as well as a mass protest also attended by O’Rourke outside the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual event in Houston on Friday, has raised questions about whether the debate over how to deal with gun violence will be a top campaign issue in a state rocked by a slew of mass shootings in recent years. The Lone Star State has seen eight mass shootings over the past 13 years, according to data compiled by the Texas Tribune.
According to February polling from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, 43 percent of Texans said they believed gun laws should be “more strict,” while 34 percent said they should be “left as they are now.” Another 16 percent said they should be “less strict.”
With anger, fear and frustration rising over mass shootings in Texas and across the country, O’Rourke and Texas Democrats are now working to make gun control a deciding issue going into November.
O’Rourke and Abbott came face-to-face a day after the shooting when the Democratic gubernatorial nominee confronted the governor over his stances on guns and preventing mass shootings. Abbott had been providing information on mental health before he was interrupted by O’Rourke.
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No, not really. What it pushed is Democrat political grandstanding. A whole lot of Democrats own guns. I’d say particularly in Texas.
I agree. Grandstanding is a good word for it.
I kind of doubt it.
Guns were already 100% banned at the school in question, not to mention at every other school that has had a mass shooting. It’s time to try something else, because gun control obviously isn’t working. How about allowing staff to be armed, and posting that fact on all entrances to each school, to give the cowardly shooters something to think about when contemplating their plans for attack?
They are aiming at the Metroplex lady vote.
What are those?
DON’T LEAVE THE DOORS AJAR! (Unless that was part of the plan… and how did he know that door was “ajar?)
Bingo.
Dallas - Ft. Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Democrats need to take a stand...and turn in their guns.
I will say this once.
If the Bill of Rights are vacated by the US government, so is the United States.
We are not going back to King George.
I will also say that this killer had one thing on his mind.
If I cannot have a family, neither can you.
This sits squarely on the left and their wholesale destruction of the family and the responsibility it carries.
The method of this killer isn’t the problem.
The reason of the killer is the problem.
Exactly, and all it’s doing is selling more guns while the gettin’ is good.
Grandstanding is what Julia Manchester, ‘The Hill’, and all of the narrative industry do for a living.
No it doesn’t hahaha
Wishful thinking on the part of the Hill. What they actually mean is that this atrocity will allow them to do a little blood dancing.
Suburban Karen’s get all gooshy for the Irish faker I run into them all the time at the local whole foods or Central market. That is exactly the target audience for him.
See my tagline, folks.
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