What effect would HB 2744 have had on the last 6 mass shootings in Texas?
Happening now, some Texas representatives pushing for a bill that raises the age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. They want that bill to move to the House floor for a vote. Just a few hours ago, Representative Vicki Goodwin sharing this letter saying 28 members of the Texas House are asking the Calendars Committee to make the bill a priority. Yesterday, the bill passed through the House Committee of Community Safety by an 8 to 5 vote. The bill would raise the legal age to buy an AR-15. This morning, supporters of the bill gathered again in the Capitol Rotunda in Austin, shouting, put it on the calendar. But Governor Greg Abbott has said many times in the past he does not support raising the age to purchase weapons.
House bill 2744 still has a long way to go before becoming law. It would have to pass the full House and the Senate. Yeah, but even if it did, would it make much of a difference? Our Lauren Talerico taking a closer look tonight. We are looking at six incidents which are just a sampling of the most recent mass shootings in Texas. Remember, House bill 2744 would make it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy, rent, or borrow a semi-automatic rifle with a caliber greater than 22. In 2016, in Dallas, five officers were killed by a 25-year-old gunman. He used an AK-74 style assault rifle.
House bill 2744 would not have stopped this shooting. In 2017, 26 people were killed in Sutherland Springs. The gunman was 26 years old and he used an AR-556 rifle and two handguns. House bill 2744 would not have stopped this shooting. Santa Fe High School, 2018, ten people killed. The suspected gunman was 17 and he used a shotgun and 38-calibre revolver. Both weapons were his father's.
House bill 2744 would not have stopped this shooting. El Paso, 2019, 23 people killed at a Walmart. The gunman was 21 and used an AK-47 style assault rifle. But he was 20 when he bought the weapon. House bill 2744 could have stopped this shooting. Rob Elementary, 21 people killed. The gunman was 18.
He used an AR-15 style rifle that he bought. House bill 2744 could have stopped this shooting. And the most recent at a shopping mall in Allen last weekend. H.Dead, the gunman, 33 years old, used an AR style rifle and a handgun. House bill 2744 would not have stopped this shooting. Overall, just in the shootings that we looked at, there were 93 total victims.
Out of those, this bill could have made a difference with saving 44 of them.
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