Texas Lawmakers Clarify Church Carry Law

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Eric Gay, File

People don’t think of Texas as a gun control state. Its reputation is clear as day, and that is pro-gun. It’s not the most pro-gun state in the nation despite the reputation as such, but it’s pro-gun, which may explain why Texas’ reaction to Sutherland Springs a year and a half ago is to clarify the law on carrying a firearm in a church.

Some Texas legislators want to make it clearer in state law that licensed handgun holders can carry weapons in churches, synagogues and other houses of worship, nearly a year and a half after a gunman killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church during a Sunday service.

The effort comes as places of worship around the world face targeted attacks by extremists, including a shooting at a California synagogue last week that left one worshiper dead and injured three others. In October 2018, a gunman killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

The Texas bill would codify an opinion state Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a little over a month after a gunman killed more than two dozen people at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in November 2017. Paxton determined then …Read the Rest

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