Parents of some of the 19 children killed in the Uvalde school massacre in Texas lashed out at Gov. Greg Abbott over his opposition to tougher gun control before the issue was likely to take center stage in his only debate with challenger Beto O'Rourke.
Abbott, a potential 2024 presidential contender who in eight years as governor has loosened Texas’ firearm restrictions and signed a law doing away with background checks for concealed handguns, has waved off calls for stricter gun controls since the Uvalde attack, which also killed two teachers.
Uvalde families have put at the top of their demands raising the minimum age to purchase an AR-15-style rifle like the one used in the shooting from 18 to 21 years old. Florida raised the minimum age weeks after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018Like many Democrats running in November, O’Rourke is drawing on outrage over abortion access and mass shootings — issues that.
Although no other debates between the two are planned, it will hardly be the last time that more than 17 million registered voters in Texas will see Abbott and O’Rourke on television before the Nov. 8 election. Both are blitzing airwaves with attack ads in what will wind up as one of the country’s most expensive races this year. Abbott stockpiled nearly $50 million before O’Rourke even entered the race last year and this week launched new spots calling the Democrat a “con artist.
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