A year ago, in Ft. Worth, a man came into a church and shot seven people dead and wounded eight others. As it was in Killeen, Texas, when a man killed 23 people in a cafeteria, including the parents of Texas State Representative Suzanna Gratia Hupp - while she sat watching helplessly. There have been other shootings in churches in several states in recent years, with about 10 people killed and about 21 wounded. No concealed weapon permitee has gone into a church or hospital in Texas and shot and killed anybody.
Criminals make no distinctions when it comes to their murderous targets.
Texas is but one of 31 states to have such a law. Our bill had been languishing in the legislature for years. The evidence was clear in Florida and other states that violent crime went down when there was a concealed-weapon law. Gov. Bush finally did what a majority of Texans wanted. He signed the bill.