A federal judge said last year Texas can’t forbid 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns. Lawyers for the state initially indicated they would appeal that ruling, but dropped plans to challenge it after backlash from gun rights groups.
Briscoe CainLike Gutierrez, Moody knows what it’s like to fight for gun legislation after a mass shooting back home. In 2019, a gunmanin a racially motivated rampage against Hispanic people.
“Yet here we are. I get it, there’s nothing I can do, I can’t stop this,” Moody said, pointing behind him from the House floor on the brink of the permitless carry bill’s passage. “But I couldn’t stop tonight without sharing my disappointment.” Gutierrez has faced a more solitary road in the Texas Senate. Of the 21 bills he filed in response to the Uvalde shooting, none is poised to make it to Abbott’s desk before the end of the legislative session Monday.
That comment drew applause from Texans sitting in the Senate gallery, but Patrick warned that if Gutierrez didn’t keep his comments focused on the legislation up for debate, the lieutenant governor would stop recognizing the senator to speak.
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