Moody: "If we don't raise the age to purchase these high-powered weapons, I think we failed our communities. That is not a responsible way to do this."ĭial: "When this session is all said and done, will you personally be proud of the reforms that would have become law at the end of this session, in reference to the quality and mass shootings? Or do you think at the end of the session, there will still be a lot left at the table that both sides couldn't come together on?" That was an amendment that I passed onto the bill, because if we're going to require this, you can't leave our districts holding the bag. In fact, when it came to the floor, it was $10 and now it is up to $100. Moody: "The bill increases the safety allotment per student. How will this be funded to ensure that every campus will have some form of armed officer?" How would this be funded? I mean, some school districts have their own district police departments, like here in Dallas, but some rural areas may use their local law enforcement. Moody's interview about HB 3, which would put an armed officer, security guard, or district staff member on every campus statewide.ĭial: "House Bill 3 would say that on every school campus, certainly there needs to be an armed officer or security guard or if you get into the guardian program in Texas, where a licensed staff member or staff member gets some training of the district, would be armed.
Moody talks about HB 3 after it passed through Texas House But in the meantime, we have to address what we can when it's in front of us." And I'll continue to hold them accountable for failing to bring that issue forward. Ultimately, it's the Republican colleagues of mine that refuse to thoughtfully engage on any conversation around gun safety. And so we should engage fully in all of them and thoughtfully in all of them. All of those things are pieces to solving the problem.
What I would encourage folks on my side of the aisle to understand is it is okay for us to engage in these dialogs across the different buckets of issues in policy kind of policy arenas, school safety, police accountability and training, access to weapons, mental health and the provision of mental health in communities that don't have access to it. I'm doing everything in my power to do that, and I've told families both in El Paso and Uvalde, I will continue to do that. I get their frustration that we are bringing gun safety measures to the floor. Moody: "I understand their frustration as someone who has been a gun safety advocate for the majority of my legislative career, particularly in the wake of the shooting in El Paso, in my community, and after certainly investigating this crap. Some have tweeted saying this is putting more guns on campus. Steven Dial: "While a majority of Democrats joined Republicans in passing this, some of your colleagues did not vote for this on the Democratic side.
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