HB 1927 was accepted by the Texas Legislature final month and would enable Texans to hold handguns with no license.
AUSTIN, Texas — In gentle of Saturday’s mass shooting on Sixth Street in Austin that killed one individual and injured greater than a dozen others, State Rep. Vikki Goodwin has despatched a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott asking him to veto a invoice permitting permitless carry in Texas.
HB 1927 was accepted by the Texas Legislature final month and would enable Texans to hold handguns with no license.
Underneath present regulation, Texans should usually be licensed to hold handguns brazenly or hid. Candidates should submit fingerprints, full 4 to 6 hours of coaching and go a written examination and capturing proficiency take a look at.
“Texans will see this resolution as a seal of approval on the follow of fixing disputes with weapons, and I’m certain that this isn’t the message that you simply intend to ship,” Goodwin, who represents western and south Travis County, wrote in her letter on Monday.
Goodwin stated “we should intervene” to interrupt the cycle of gun violence.
“Whereas I understand that legal guidelines can’t singlehandedly maintain weapons out of the incorrect fingers, I additionally perceive that they impose boundaries, create order and set a tone,” she wrote. “We want you, as our governor, to ship the message that we’re addressing mass gun violence in Texas. That message is just not despatched by undoing our system of licensing and the requirement that those that carry a gun get hold of coaching in related legal guidelines and security procedures.”
Abbott, nonetheless, has already stated he’ll signal the permitles carry invoice into regulation.
“I help it, and I consider it ought to attain my desk, and we should always have ‘constitutional carry’ in Texas,” Abbott told North Texas radio host Rick Roberts in April.
The bill was approved by the Texas Home in an 82-62 vote, whereas the Senate accepted the invoice in a 17-13 vote, sending it to the governor’s desk.
A stable majority of Texas voters do not suppose permitless carry ought to be allowed, in response to the newest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
