Nirenberg said arming teachers with firearms, an approach pushed by Texas Republicans, is not the solution.
The city of San Antonio sent emergency responders to Uvalde on Tuesday after a gunman opened fire and killed 21 people at an elementary school there. Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio, Texas’ biggest city near Uvalde, regrets that his city and others across the state can only react to large shootings, noting that local leaders do not have the ability to prevent mass shootings before they happen.
“The reality is here at the local level in the state of Texas, they have largely tied our hands with regard to making any sort of change and put that responsibility on themselves,” Nirenberg said Wednesday during an interview with The Texas Tribune’s editor in chief Sewell Chan at San Antonio College.
When asked about arming teachers and introducing more firearms into schools to better protect students, an“If more guns in our community made us a safer community, the United States would have been the safest community in the world a long time ago,” Nirenberg said.The deadly shooting dominated the beginning of the previously scheduled interview, which was slated to delve into life in Texas’ second-largest city.
Nirenberg also discussed housing affordability and homelessness, issues San Antonio voters sought to address earlier this month when they approved a $1.2 billion bond program, the largest in city history, which would fund projects related to housing affordability, street improvements and drainage enhancements, among others.Sponsors help make our events possible. Thank you to CityHealth, Texas Municipal League, CPS Energy, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.
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