Less than a week after eight people were killed in a mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets, students staged walkouts throughout the state of Texas to protest the inaction on gun safety legislation. The walkouts come as the Texas legislature is slowly winding down...
Cheers erupted in the halls of the Texas Capitol, signaling for the first time in a long time there was meaningful movement on gun safety legislation. The jubilation from the crowd came after House Bill 2477 was passed out of the Texas House Select Committee on...
A scenario that has become all too familiar in Texas tragically unfolded again on Saturday afternoon. A shooting at Allen Premium Outlets killed eight people and left seven injured (with three in critical condition). The gunman, who was 33-years-old and a former...
Once again, our nation came together to mourn another tragic and senseless shooting at a school that left three children and three adults dead. The shooting occurred in Nashville at the Covenant School. The tragedy then gave way to a predictable cycle: shock, outrage,...
As I packed for my trip to join 500 Texans and gun safety advocates in Austin, a thought kept crossing my mind, “What if something happens in my own kids’ schools when I’m gone?” I pushed the fear aside as unlikely. Then, while I stood in a hallway at the Texas...
“My daughter will never get to celebrate Halloween again, nor will she ever get the chance to vote,” Gloria Cazares tweeted, mother of 10-year-old Jackie Cazares, who was killed with 18 of her classmates and two teachers in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting on...
For over 48 hours, families of victims of the Uvalde massacre protested outside the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District headquarters to call for an investigation into the campus police response at Robb Elementary on May 24. Since the killings, which left...
In Uvalde, Texas, kids are returning to the classroom after their summer break. But this is anything but an ordinary first day of school. Today is the first day of school after the tragic shooting on May 24 at Robb Elementary School, where nineteen students and two...
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District trustees unanimously voted to send a request to Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session on gun violence. The school board wants the governor and legislatures to pass a bill to change the legal age to buy...