Posted November 12, 2017 11:00 am by Comments

By Andrew Shepperson

Texas State Reps. Poncho Nevarez, Gina Hinojosa and Nicole Collier called for stricter gun regulations at a Wednesday press conference. (Photo: Austin American-Statesman)
Some members of the Texas state Legislature are now calling for stricter gun laws after a lone gunman shot and killed at least 26 people at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday.
Democratic state Reps. Nicole Collier, Poncho Nevarez, Ramon Romero Jr. and Gina Hinojosa spoke out at a Wednesday news conference organized by gun control group Texas Gun Sense and urged fellow legislators to treat gun violence as a public health issue and to impose stricter gun laws in the state.
“It’s incumbent on the thoughts and prayers brigade to start looking at what we’re going to do for the next shooting because there’s going to be another one,” said Nevarez, D-Eagle Pass. “You know, what about those folks at the football game or the concert or the recital. What are we doing about that? So, it’s really easy to look back and say none of the laws we have in place or none of the background checks could have stopped this. OK, but what about the next one?”
Nevarez also characterized Texas’s open carry law as an “oddity” that should

Source: Guns.com

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