A 7 old girl was shot because the driver got angry at the mom being tardy in driving off....
She said she switched lanes again, to let the Lexus pass, but the driver followed. Then, she heard three shots.
"She screamed, 'Mommy!' And she started crying. And I'm like, 'What happened, mama? Mama, What happened? You're OK. You're OK.' And she's like, 'Mommy, it hurts.' So I stopped my car and got down," Sabio said.
Through the side of the red Nissan, Luna had been shot twice while sitting in the backseat. Video of the car shows the bullet holes in the side.
Why is this important ?
Texas recently passed permitless carry laws .
What does the science tell us when that happens?
https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/23510.html
Relaxing gun laws is associated with rise in violent crimes .Our synthetic control approach also strongly confirms that RTC laws are associated with 13-15 percent higher aggregate violent crime rates ten years after adoption
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-polic ... uries.html
Just like bars used to ban drinkers from carrying guns for a reason....
In the 11 states that were part of the sample, the authors found a suggestive effect consistent with shall-issue laws increasing unintentional firearm injuries for children under age 18 and a statistically significant effect of these laws increasing self-inflicted firearm injuries among those aged 18 or older. Specifically, the estimate suggests that, after a state implemented a shall-issue law, unintentional firearm injuries among those aged 18 or older were more than twice as frequent as would be expected without the law, which would be extraordinary if true. However, the estimated effects of shall-issue laws in this study were based primarily on one state that changed its law during the study time frame (Arizona); thus, the study offers little evidence that the observed effects are due to the change in the law rather than to other factors affecting the state's unintentional injury rate that occurred around the same time the law was changed.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36383941/
We found that having less regs on carrying a gun increased the prevalence of guns being carried.
Its shouldn't be difficult to extrapolate from these three facts what that means in terms of innocent children being shot in Texas.