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  • Brian Boru

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    Today, I am respectfully asking the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house of Texas to empanel a blue-ribbon Commission on Gun Violence In Texas. The primary charge of the commission shall be to determine the root causes of gun violence in Texas and to propose legislation to address these issues, to be adopted in the 86th Legislature. The secondary charge of the commission shall be to publish the findings of the commission and disseminate through education and conference the proposals of the commission.



    The panel will be chaired by an appointee of the governor, with the co-vice chairmen appointed by the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. The commission should include four senators (two from each political party) and four members of the house (two from each political party) and four members who shall be a law enforcement specialist, a mental health expert, a member of the clergy and an ethicist (in each case to be chosen by a majority of the appointees of the chairman and vice chairman).

    There is no question that mental health plays a significant role in these attacks, and certainly, adequate mental health funding and accessibility shall be a key component to any solution to this complex issue.

    But, to be perfectly clear, the commission shall focus on ALL possible causes of gun violence in Texas including lax or deficient gun control laws and regulations in Texas. No shibboleth shall be off limits.
    THERE NEEDS TO BE COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL REFORM IN TEXAS! If we expect a change in the outcomes, we must consider all inputs. The time is now to DO something. Whatever that may be.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...mmission-propose-legislation-end-gun-violence
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    AustinN4

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    Today, I am respectfully asking the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house of Texas to empanel a blue-ribbon Commission on Gun Violence In Texas. The primary charge of the commission shall be to determine the root causes of gun violence in Texas and to propose legislation to address these issues, to be adopted in the 86th Legislature. The secondary charge of the commission shall be to publish the findings of the commission and disseminate through education and conference the proposals of the commission.

    The panel will be chaired by an appointee of the governor, with the co-vice chairmen appointed by the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house. The commission should include four senators (two from each political party) and four members of the house (two from each political party) and four members who shall be a law enforcement specialist, a mental health expert, a member of the clergy and an ethicist (in each case to be chosen by a majority of the appointees of the chairman and vice chairman).

    There is no question that mental health plays a significant role in these attacks, and certainly, adequate mental health funding and accessibility shall be a key component to any solution to this complex issue.

    But, to be perfectly clear, the commission shall focus on ALL possible causes of gun violence in Texas including lax or deficient gun control laws and regulations in Texas. No shibboleth shall be off limits.

    THERE NEEDS TO BE COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL REFORM IN TEXAS! If we expect a change in the outcomes, we must consider all inputs. The time is now to DO something. Whatever that may be.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...mmission-propose-legislation-end-gun-violence
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    Younggun

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    This is the same guy that wanted to make it illegal to record cops.

    He's a jackass and irrelevant. Probably just trying to make points for some future political campaign.
     

    SQLGeek

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    "The primary charge of the commission shall be to determine the root causes of gun violence in Texas

    ...

    THERE NEEDS TO BE COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL REFORM IN TEXAS!"

    Sounds like in the course of a sermon press release, he has sussed this whole thing out already. Bully for him. Now piss off.
     

    SQLGeek

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    From further down in the screed:

    "Tonight, I will go home and I will rest my hands and my face on the tops of my children's heads. We will say our prayers and we will hug and I will thank God for them. For many families in Charlottesville, Sandy Hook, Killeen, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs and across America, that will not happen. "

    This clown can't even keep his tragedies straight. I see he really wrings his hands over them.
     

    Davetex

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    "The primary charge of the commission shall be to determine the root causes of gun violence"

    Why not let's look at the root cause of government failure to follow and execute existing laws? That would do more than your grandstanding.
     

    easy rider

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    In which mass shooting case was the murderer using common sense? So called common sense laws only effect those that are using common sense. They broke the laws that we already have in place against such things. If they were to make laws enough to ensure that nobody would senselessly murder anyone again, we would all be kept in our own separate cages.
     

    Shady

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    just enforce the ones on the books I forget the exact numbers but 4800 criminals tried to buy guns and were rejected of the 4800 It was 44 or 4 that were prosecuted.

    I could get behind a common sense gun law that was something like this.

    Mandatory 10 years added to your sentence no early release if you use a gun in a violent crime.
     

    Lunyfringe

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    The problem is the definition of "Common Sense", and the left has a NASTY habit of redefining terms..

    so they try to trap by using a term that they've conveniently redefined... to me, "Common Sense Gun Control" means only implement what will reduce crime- and remove any that have to proven to have no effect on crime.

    To them, it can mean "prevent any private citizen from owning firearms"... because they can't be trusted, they change the definition as they need to.
     

    Kar98

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    I always took the "common sense" moniker to mean that it is just plain common sense that we enact whatever said restrictions they happen to attach the label to.

    And also implying that there aren't ANY gun control measures in place whatsoever, even tho "common sense" would say there should be.
     
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