SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County leaders on Friday held a press meeting to demand motion on gun violence adhering to the mass capturing in Uvalde at Robb Elementary that killed 19 learners and two academics.
Bexar County Decide Nelson Wolff, District Lawyer Joe Gonzales, Sheriff Javier Salazar and county commissioners known as on Gov. Greg Abbott to connect with a unique session and pass steps to minimize both equally gun violence and mass shootings.
“Over the previous two many years, school little ones have died from guns extra than on-responsibility police officers and active armed forces, blended,” Wolff said. “… A unique session requirements to be called now. We really don’t will need a review, we have been through this for many years and know what wants to come about.”
Wolff laid out a handful of certain policies he said the Legislature must pass immediately:
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Elevate age from 18 to 21 to obtain semi-computerized weapons
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Go a red flag legislation that will allow a listening to to consider guns absent from individuals thought to be threats
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Call for qualifications checks on all gun gross sales
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Require a license and schooling for carrying firearms in community
Bexar County District Lawyer Joe Gonzales echoed Wolff’s reviews.
“We are drained. We are drained of replaying this over and above. We want to do a thing, and do a thing now,” he claimed.
Gonzales explained starting Monday, the DA’s office will move to destroy just about every firearm associated in profitable prosecutions.
“We have to do anything people, to get these guns off the streets,” he explained.
The district lawyer mentioned his office environment is also creating it a priority to choose situations and make arrests of men and women who are in possession of a swap that turns a semi-automated weapon into an automatic weapon.
“We are inclined, equipped and eager to just take these styles of scenarios,” Gonzales explained. “The only cause to have that, is to convert that weapon into an automated weapon.”
Bexar County Commissioners Rebeca Clay-Flores, Precinct 1, and Justin Rodriguez, Precinct 2, mentioned they would push steps by means of commissioners courtroom subsequent week, such as:
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Ban gun displays on county home, which include Freeman Coliseum & AT&T Center
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$100k funding for gun locks and distribute
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$1 million for general public consciousness marketing campaign on gun violence
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar explained pink flag rules are a should and that they will be exploring and expanding new techniques of making ready the local community and its initial responders to on how to stay away from and deal with tragedies.
“Our Score units, our distinctive functions teams, will proceed to educate nearby faculty and church staff community teams and all of our civilian populations in energetic shooter response and prevent the bleed teaching,” Salazar reported. “We’re presently doing work to host education classes, for university districts in surrounding counties over the summertime months. And we’re also reaching out to our area college districts with schools in unincorporated places, to enable them evaluate and deal with desires for increasing physical protection.”
Salazar stated the assessments and joint bodily drills will be conducted in conjunction with the personnel of the educational facilities.
Ronald Stewart, a trauma surgeon and chair of surgery at College Hospital and UT Wellness San Antonio who handled people from Uvalde and the Sutherland Springs mass shootings, also called on elected leaders to move widespread sense gun reform.
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Congressman Joaquin Castro and representatives from San Antonio Mothers Need Action also spoke.
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