Texas Governor Cancels Shotgun Giveaway After School Shooting

“We are as shocked and confused as anyone else by these events”, the family said in the statement, which offered prayers and condolences to the victims.

Advocates on both sides of the gun debate appear to have found some elusive common ground in promoting safe and responsible firearm ownership, an issue that nationwide studies suggest is a worthy cause. “Working together, we can ensure a safe learning environment for students and safer communities for all Texans”.

“My own hunch is that there has been so much change in the last 20 to 25 years among gun-rights activists – you have to have immediate access to a gun at all times, and anything short of that is just unacceptable”, he said.

Gun control activists had complained about the picture of Abbot with the shotgun following the shooting and pressed the governor over the weekend to delete if from the webpage.

“There aren’t enough people to put a guard at every entrance and exit”.

Baze said she believes the incident embarrassed the suspect so much that he targeted Shana.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) has suggested following the shooting that schools should have fewer entrances and exits, which would allow security to better monitor who is coming in and out of the building.

Patrick said the solution might be costly, but its necessary. “Thankfully they were able to get out safely”.

“It’s something that we’re looking into”, Poehl told ABC News on Monday regarding an investigation into the possibility that the gunman, 17-year old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was bullied by classmates and adults.

A Sante Fe High School student signs a cross placed outside the school to remember one of the 10 victims of the May 18 shooting.

Thirteen others, including School Resource Officer John Barnes, suffered injuries during the attack.

Barnes is still in intensive care and has undergone multiple surgeries, officials said.

“Roughly about a third of those that were triaged were for suicidal intention, and they’re mostly female; females act in, males act out”, Phillips said. He’s being held on capital murder charges. Galveston County Judge Mark Henry, the county’s top administrator, has said police exchanged rounds with Pagourtzis “for quite a while” before he surrendered a half-hour after the first reports of a shooter on campus. They included measures to buy back guns, improve gun safety education and create a lethal violence protective order to stop a potentially risky person from buying or possessing a firearm.