AUSTIN, Texas — (AUSTIN, Texas) -- Despite a consistent stream of tragedies, Texas officials aren't doing enough to combat gun violence, according to elected officials, activists and families of people killed in mass shootings who say they are frustrated by a lack of legislative progress in the state.
Although gun reform activists claimed a small victory Monday when a Texas state house committee advanced a bill that would raise the age to buy assault-style weapons, they say the process shouldn't take this long.
"Any change is better than nothing," Yanas, who identifies as a conservative Republican said."I may not agree with everything, [or] what everybody's fighting for, but any kind of change is better than nothing." Gutierrez, a Democrat, told ABC News he knows that many of his proposals don't stand a chance due to opposition from Republicans. However, he said it is worth trying.
Some activists have noted that other red states pushed to pass bipartisan gun reform bills without the roadblocks. Roughly three weeks after the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed a gun reform package that included raising the minimum age for buying a gun from 18 to 21 and a red flag law that allowed law enforcement the right to petition a judge to take a gun away from an individual who poses a threat to themselves or others.
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