A border Democrat has asked a Texas House committee to consider honoring victims of mass shootings in the state with a monument on the Capitol grounds.
Flowers and candles are placed at a memorial for the victims of a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019.
“There are too many victims now, and there's bound to be more in the future,” Moody said. “I remember when I was younger, and Columbine happened. It was unthinkable at the time. But in the years since, mass shootings have become almost commonplace.” The 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School that killed eight students and two teachers is also mentioned, as is the mass killing at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs the year before.
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