) and doubled down on keeping Texas’ porous gun laws in place.
“So for a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings, but we do now. Maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing,” he said Friday. But there is recent precedent for the state of Texas’ ability to raise the age limit on certain things in the name of public health.into law.SB 21, introduced by Sen. Joan Huffman, a Republican from Houston, states that Texans must be 21 to buy, possess or use tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and other vaporizing devices. The law went into effect that Sept. 1.
the effort was to keep the products “out of Texas public schools by creating more social distance between younger high school students and of-age purchasers, thereby reducing early addiction to nicotine and tobacco.”Since then, the use of tobacco by teens decreased from 21.8% in 2019 to 19.1% in 2021, according to the
Ban assault rifles!
KSAT 🖕your left 💩💩💩
I don’t think tobacco that is causing so many suicides among young people
GovAbbott GregAbbott_TX so no money from tobacco?
See they can institute change! Abbott just doesn’t want to cutoff his NRA money - just sickening!!!
25 million law abiding gun owners are not killing people. Just like many millions of people are driving cars and not killing people drunk. But when you're a liberal you got to shift to blame to someone for your godless society that you created.
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Hello my Texas. Greggo brings death. It's past time to Remember the Alamo. NoQuarter to GunViolenceEnablers
WARPED NEGLIGENT GREG ABBOTT CONTINUES TO *PLAY VICIOUS GAMES W/ LIVES IN TX & NATION TOO! SO MANY TX FAMILIES ESPECIALLY KIDS are INJURED, KILLED & WILL NOT RECOVER! *🥾👢BOOT ABBOTT from OFFICE! ✔️BETO for TEXAS GOVERNOR! NEW LEADERSHIP ESSENTIAL!
What pretty fucked up democrats keep pointing finger at Republicans but why don't you point the finger at his family they knew they help him get his AMOR-LITE RIFLE AR-15 AT LEAST MAKE THAT CLEAR.
Tobacco didn’t pay GregAbbott_TX enough to keep the age limit. NRA did and he still protects them. Sick of him. VoteThemOut
Guess he's not bought and paid for by the tobacco industry.
Because smoking kills! Oh wait, so do assault weapons…
It's pretty f***ed up when you can buy an assault weapon before buying beer and tobacco. Oh, and don't you dare keep that undersized redfish either, you might do hard time!