Don't tread on Texans' gun rights, Abbott says in plan to 'protect' Second Amendment
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
2/8/2021
Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Feb. 8—Lawmakers are back in Austin for the first legislative session since the mass shootings in El Paso and Midland-Odessa, presenting an opportunity to the address gun laws in a state where more than 3,000 people are killed with a gun each year.
It's a familiar position for lawmakers, who went into the 2019 session in the wake of mass shootings at a church in Sutherland Springs and a high school in Santa Fe.
Gov. Greg Abbott, for one, is focused on making Texas a "Second Amendment sanctuary state."