Mayors from across Texas, including MayorAdler, are calling for a special session of the Texas Legislature on guns, school safety and mental health.
Pastor Humberto Jnr, center, wearing a t-shirt that says "In Uvalde As In Heaven," leads a prayer circle at a memorial site for victims killed in the Robb Elementary school shooting, on Saturday in Uvalde, Texas.
The wish list from Texas’ Big City Mayors — a bipartisan group of 16 mayors that includes leaders from Houston, Dallas, Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth and San Antonio — specifically calls for lawmakers to raise the age to buy assault-style weapons to 21, universal background checks for gun purchases, red flag laws to identify people who should not be allowed to buy guns, and more resources for mental health programs.
“These reforms, supported by most Texans, would have prevented the shooters in El Paso and Uvalde from obtaining their weapons,” the mayors wrote.
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