'If Gov. Abbott can call three special sessions to make it harder for people to vote, surely he can call a special session to keep our kids from being massacred in their schools,' Lina Hidalgo said.
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"You'd think after decades of enduring tragedies like Uvalde, like Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe, El Paso, that the state would have course corrected. But instead, we all know they moved in the opposite direction, passing permitless carry," Hidalgo said."This is a chance to correct that. This is the time.
Gov. Abbott has yet to weigh directly on Hidalgo's calls for a special session for youth gun violence. While he has called on and backed various measures to address campus safety after the Uvalde school shooting, he has been criticized over loosening gun laws in the wake of similar massacres in recent history.
Abbott called on a"red flag" law in the wake of the 2018 Santa Fe school shooting, but wound up backing off of pursuing a measure under pressure from gun rights activists and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Instead,that Texas ended up passing laws more focused on boosting mental health resources and giving teachers more access to guns on public school campuses.
Abbott again floated expanding background checks to include stranger-to-stranger gun sales following the 2019 El Paso shooting, but legislation steered toward open constitution carry without revisiting expanded checks.
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