Texas remains the state with most mass shooting deaths. That is changing the ways Texans care for their children, practice their faith and police their neighborhoods.
Wichita Falls Times Record NewsWICHITA FALLS, Texas – Terrance Hopkins has seen what a bad guy with a gun can do.
They must be at least 21 years old unless active duty military, meet federal qualifications to buy a gun, pass a background check, receive training, pay required fees and submit an application and other forms. Sitting behind his desk at the association’s fortress-like headquarters in central Dallas, Hopkins touched on how a"good guy with a gun" might endanger himself, gun restrictions and how law enforcement officers have become targets.
DALLAS, TX - JULY 09: People visit a growing memorial at the Dallas police department's headquarters near the active crime scene in downtown Dallas following the deaths of five police officers on Thursday evening on July 9, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. Five police officers were killed and seven others were injured in the evening ambush during a march against recent police involved shootings. Investigators are saying the suspect is 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson of Mesquite, Texas.
“No one questions whether or not that gentleman saved lives and was able to end that attack faster,” Wilkison said. This civilian"good guy" also should be mentally fit and have clear ownership to the weapon, Wilkison said. Yet he felt no relief when Colt announced Sept. 19 that it would cease production of its semiautomatic AR-15 for consumers in what it couched as a business decision.
Texas Municipal Police Association has supported red flag laws, and lie and try legislation, but those proposals have gone nowhere in the Texas Legislature, he said. But he declared the legislation dead after a gun rights activist, angry at the bill's lack of progress, traveled to lawmakers' homes to push the bill.
“Anything can happen,” Steve Wesbrook, executive director of the Texas Sheriff’s Association, said. “Of course, that’s been that way from the beginning.” "It had been one of these 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. days, and I was just taking off my shoes," Valdez said during an interview in her home."When I saw that, the uniform went back on.”Lupe Valdez, former Sheriff of Dallas County, is interviewed Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, on mass shootings and gun ownership.Valdez, 72, was in her fourth term as sheriff then. Her petite stature belies the larger than life career she carved out in law enforcement.
The names and sculptured faces of the five officers killed July 7, 2016 – considered the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001 – adorn a memorial outside Dallas police headquarters. Hall, who took the position in 2017, declined to be interviewed for this story through the police media relations office.
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