Governor: gun controls coming
SANTA FE SHOOTING: WE’LL SURE ACT, ABBOTT VOWS
Texas leader promises that another school massacre will not happen in state.
Abbott, a Republican, promised that action was coming as he finished his third session on school safety in talks that came less than a week after a 17-year-old student, armed with a pistol and shotgun, fatally shot 10 people at a Houston-area high school.
“May 18 came around and it finally happened to our school and we weren’t surprised,” said Grace Johnson, a senior at Santa Fe High School, the latest campus in a string of deadly US mass shootings that stoked a debate about the best ways to stop the carnage.
“Why Santa Fe and we said why not. It is happening everywhere,” she said, adding she sat next to the suspected gunman in a class and asked the governor for more security officers on campus and for trained teachers to be armed.
Abbott said after holding discussions with victims, security experts, school administrators and advocates for and against gun control that he would put a plan into action.
“We are going to do more than talk. We are going to act,” Abbott said.
He has mentioned the state will consider changes that include improving mental health screenings, bolstering gun storage regulations, and implementing socalled red flag warning laws about possible suspect gun owners. – Reuters