In these last days Greg Abbott, governor of the US state of Texas, has signed a regulatory text allowing the possession of weapons in public without the need for a license. As is known, the issue is rather debated in the United States and this decision by Abbott it does nothing but add more fuel to the flames of controversy. This is just one of the latest measures introduced on arms rights that have to do with the country's most conservative states. Going into more detail of the news, the law was approved last May by Senate and House, both with a preponderant number of Republican representatives.
Simply put, any Texan resident aged 21 and over can carry a firearm in public without the need for permits or authorizations, as long as does not have to comply with a prohibition of possession. Among other things, the governor has expressed his intention to give life to a ceremony of promulgation of the text that has made more than one person turn up their noses. According to Abbott, among other things, it is not the first state that has behaved in this way and the time would be ripe for Texas to follow the same example. For opponents of the law, the new rules risk increasing violent crimes related to the use of weapons.
In particular, the massacres of recent years are mentioned, such as those of August 2019 in which 30 people died, the shooting in a school in 2018 that killed 10 people and the one in a church in 2017 that left 27 people dead. For the supporters of the norm it is instead a “simple restoration of constitutional right of Texans sanctioned by the Second Amendment ”. The Texan text will come into force on September XNUMXst.