Texas Gov. Abbot Creates Texas Safety Commission Following El Paso

By Tom Knighton

By now, we’re all too familiar with how things play out. There’s a mass shooting, followed by days and weeks of examination of just what happened and who the shooter was overlapped with lawmakers and activists making all kinds of suggestions about what really went wrong and how to fix it. In particular, anti-gunners will jump up and start demanding new laws before we know anything about anything. They call for universal background checks before we learn the killer bought it at a gun store. They call for an assault weapon ban before we learn the shooter used a pistol.

It’s tiresome.

However, sometime after that, we start to get to some semi-serious discussion. The anti-gunners are still pushing for new gun control laws and little else, but that’s just what they do. Others get to work trying to find just what happened and what can be done to try and prevent it from happening again.

It seems we’ve started to enter that stage after El Paso.

Following through on plans for roundtable discussions after a mass shooting in El Paso left 22 dead, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced the creation of the Texas Safety Commission to offer advice …Read the Rest

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