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snowwhitelass · 2 years

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Beautiful souls lost to a senseless Texas gun tragedy. 💔 🕊 😭😭

Now heaven has more angels 😇 😇 😇

#texas shooting #school shooting victims #uvalde #texas #texas gun laws #gun violence #america #us politics #rest in peace #robb elementary school

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kp777 · 2 years

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How Texas’s gun laws allow Mexican cartels to arm themselves to the teeth

#texas gun laws #texas #mexican cartels #gun violence #crime #gregg abbott

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reportwire · 2 years

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Humble ISD student arrested, charged after allegedly bringing loaded gun to Kingwood Park High School

2022-08-30 20:15:10 HUMBLE, Texas (KTRK) — A student was arrested Tuesday morning after accusations that he took a loaded gun to Kingwood Park High School. Humble ISD Police Department confirms the suspect is a 15-year-old boy. Principal Wes Solomon sent a letter to parents about the situation Tuesday morning, saying the suspected student ran off when he was questioned by school…

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#15 year old brings gun to school #Humble ISD Police Department #humble isd student arrested #Kingwood Park High School #School safety #student brings gun to school #texas gun laws

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worldofwardcraft · 2 years

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What’s the matter with Texas?

June 6, 2022

In 2020 (the most recent year for which we have published data), the failed state of Texas suffered 4,164 gun-related deaths. That's more than any other state in the nation. While most of these deaths were due either to accident or suicide, this still includes 1,785 firearm homicides. In fact, according to Texas Gun Sense, a non-profit formed in 2013 to increase public awareness of gun violence, a woman is 24% more likely to be murdered with a gun in Texas than in any other state.

A mass shooting is customarily defined as a multiple homicide incident in which four or more victims are murdered with firearms. Texas has seen eight of these over the past 13 years, including at the Sutherland Springs Church, an El Paso Walmart, Midland and Odessa, Santa Fe High School and, most recently, the elementary school in Uvalde where 21 students and teachers were killed.

Six of these mass shootings have occurred during the 7-1/2 years that Governor Greg Abbott has been in office. And each time he's offered up prayers and condemnations, but rejected calls for stricter gun regulations. On the contrary, Abbott has actively moved to loosen the state's gun laws. Almost exactly a year ago, he signed seven separate pieces of legislation allowing Texans to (among other things) possess silencers, store firearms in their hotel rooms, carry handguns without a license and carry them in whatever kind of holster they choose (as pictured above, which explains the state's one-star rating).

After years of relentlessly easing gun regulations, Texas by the end of 2019 had nearly 1.7 million people with a license to carry. Now, of course, they don't even need one. And neither do the more than 8,400 Texans whose licenses to carry a handgun were denied, suspended, or revoked in 2021. Texas Gun Sense estimates that at least 37% of Texans now own guns. Plus, as of December 2021, the state has more than 8,600 federally licensed gun dealers.

In 2015, Greg Abbott tweeted, "I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans." Five years later, the gun death rate in Texas is 14.2 per 100,000. While, despite its larger population, California has fewer total gun deaths than Texas and only 8.5 per 100,000.

As in many parts of the country, Texas not only has too many guns, but also too many Republicans who want people to own more of them. And if the result is more Texans killing more Texans, apparently that doesn't matter.

#uvalde mass shooting #texas gun laws #greg abbott #texas republicans

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whatthehelloh · 2 years

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We should treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion - mandatory 48 hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he's about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, and a mandatory invasive ultrasound procedure. Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, with people shouting at him that he's a murderer, begging him not to buy a gun.

It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and healthcare, right? I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds.

#pro life right?#pro life my ass #gun violence #gun laws #texas #gun violence in america #I don't know who wrote the original but I found this on reddit and edited it a bit

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study-of-happiness · 2 years

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"There's fifty senetors right now who refuse to vote on HR-8, which is a background check rule that the house passed a couple of years ago, it's been sitting there for two years. And there is a reason they won't vote on it:

To hold onto power."

Steve Kerr speech following school shooting in Uvalde, Texas leaving 19 children and 2 teachers dead.

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whatareyoureallyafraidof · 2 years

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queerism1969 · 11 months

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#gun laws #gun rights #gun reform #gun violence #nra #gun control #uvalde #salvador ramos #robb elementary school #texas #one year later #the nra is a terrorist organization #fuck the nra #nrashow #f the nra #gop

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#LGBTQIA+ Books #Censorship #Texas #Gun Laws #News

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 7 months

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday once again stepped in to leave in place the federal government's ban on so-called "ghost guns." These are unassembled and unmarked guns that can be bought online and then assembled into fully operative guns.

In August 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued regulations that required any such disassembled gun parts to carry serial numbers and required anyone buying them to pass a background check, in the same manner as in-person gun buyers. The gun manufacturers challenged the regulations in court, and Federal Judge Reed O'Connor in Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the rule from going into effect.

The Supreme Court, however, blocked those decisions from going into effect, whereupon two of the manufacturers returned to Judge O'Connor's court and won an order barring the government from enforcing its regulations. The 5th Circuit upheld that order, too.

The government asked the high court to void, rather than just pause, the lower court rulings to send a message that lower courts should not "countermand" the high court's "authoritative determination."

Now the Supreme Court has once again repudiated the lower courts, voiding the lower court orders and allowing the ATF regulations to go into effect pending further litigation.

There were no noted dissents.

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miawashere · 8 months

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texas & the new laws

on september 1st of this year, 774 laws have gone into effect in the state of texas. one of the most important ones is house bill number 3, which requires an armed police officer at every single school in the state. with the rise of school shootings across america and the devastating Uvalde elementary last year, i’m glad the state of texas is starting to protect students and not have to make parents worry about their children’s safety at a place of learning. i hope with this law, school shooting numbers will drastically decrease and more steps will be taken in the future to protect those trying to better themselves by gaining an education.

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blackwolfmanx2 · 3 months

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Why Is Shaq Sponsoring A Gun Buy Back In Texas When They Don't Work?

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Giving away guns for gift card, I could never.

#blackwolfmanx2 #ancap #libertarian #colion noir #shaquille o'neal #gun grabbers #closeted cop faggots #all gun laws are infringements #gun control is oppression #texas #statism #gun rights #stay strapped #come and take it #shall not be infringed #Youtube

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aci25 · 2 years

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revengeromance · 6 months

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liberal northern states think they’re sooo much better than those backwards lawless southern states and yet I’ve only started experiencing racism and transphobia once I moved to Colorado 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

#bad day still annoyed #gov teacher thinks Texas is the Wild West cuz of our gun laws and yet everyone in yr class is a conservative and is mean to me

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nneilperry · 2 years

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Texas does not lift a finger when children are shot at their desks at age 10, but considers abortion of a fetus an unforgivable sin.

#no this is not up for debate #texas shooting #texas #uvalde #school shooting #gun laws #gun violence #gun control #abortion #abortion laws #abortion legislation #tw: school shooting #trigger warning #womens rights

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b0bthebuilder35 · 2 years

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We’re forcing women to birth children in a country that cannot feed babies or protect children. Tell me again how this whole pro-life thing works?

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