“Three quarters of Texans say that they would support raising the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21,' said JoshuaMBlank with TxPolProject. 'That included 91% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans.' | via TexasStandard
University of Texas students Pedro Pinales, left to right, Ashlynn Turbett and Alyssa Navarro march with thousands of people from Austin's City Hall to the Texas Capitol to rally against gun violence in 2018.
The poll also showed that the majority of Texans support raising the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21. “The Republican majority in the state has a difficult problem, which is that ultimately there are continuous acts of gun violence that in and of themselves don’t change people’s opinions, but are accumulating to make people look at guns more as a problem,” Blank said.
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