Texas Committee Members Reportedly Getting Death Threats

By Tom Knighton

Following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas Governor Greg Abbott decided to put together a committee to look at mass shootings. He’d done one after Santa Fe High School, but another mass shooting in the state demanded another response, at least in Abbott’s mind.

While there have been some anti-gun sentiments uttered by politicians in the state who really should know better, we don’t really know all that much about what the committee is going to do, especially just now.

That’s not enough to stop some jackwagons from issuing death threats to committee members, it seems.

Top leaders of a new Texas House committee that is addressing issues related to gun violence in the wake of two local mass shootings said Wednesday some of its Republican members have received death threats.

The threats mark the latest confrontation Republican lawmakers have faced by gun rights supporters in Texas, which already has some of the most permissive gun laws in the U.S.

Democratic state Rep. Poncho Nevarez, the vice chairman of the panel, said the lawmakers were targeted “by people who do not want to see any movement on gun issues.” Nevarez declined to comment on who the lawmakers were and did not …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms