Bill to be introduced requiring active shooter training for cops

TEXAS, USA — Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez has been one of the vital vocal and constant critics of the regulation enforcement response to the Uvalde college bloodbath because it occurred in May.

And he just lately testified about these failures earlier than the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.

“When you talk about gun safety, we have to take failure, we have to take human error, system failure into consideration,” Sen. Gutierrez stated on Inside Texas Politics. “The fact is, had this young man not had these types of mass assault weapons, this would not have happened.”

The listening to befell throughout the identical week we discovered about extra deficiencies in regulation enforcement training in Texas.

A report supplied to Uvalde County Commissioners said that active shooter training is not required for regulation enforcement officers who aren’t working at a faculty.

“I’ll be filing a bill here in the next few days, Jason, to require just that, that every certified officer have active shooter training, the most obvious thing,” he advised us.

That report additionally states Texas regulation doesn’t require an active shooter response coverage for regulation enforcement companies, one thing else he’ll attempt to change legislatively within the upcoming session.

Some relations of the victims and members of the Uvalde group additionally supplied emotional testimony earlier than the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.

The final purpose is to discover bipartisan options to gun violence.

For Gutierrez, meaning some degree of gun reform.

“I’m going to keep asking for change, whether it’s an assault weapons ban at the federal level, or an age limit in Texas,” the Democrat advised us. “We have to be having these conversations because no parent should have to go through what these parents have gone through.”

Republicans on the committee balked at any dialogue of gun management, so it’s clear, there may be nonetheless a great distance to go earlier than something will get accomplished.

But Gutierrez says he’s seen the video from the Uvalde bloodbath, the our bodies mangled from bullets and rooms soaked with blood. And that, he says, informs his actions.

“I’m going to keep having this conversation for as long as I’m in public office,” he stated.