Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said that lawmakers are ignoring the will of the “vast majority” of the American people by refusing to pass reasonable gun control legislation and that voters should punish them at the ballot box during a Sunday appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
“I think that the American people, gun owners — the vast majority of which are pragmatic and actually support gun sense and gun reform in terms of keeping guns in the right hands,” he said, according to a local CBS affiliate. “Let me tell you, people at the state level and the federal level in too many places in our country are not doing anything other than offering prayers.
“We need to start using the ballot box and ballot initiatives to take the matters out of the hands of people that are doing nothing that are elected into the hands of the people to see that the will of the people in this country is actually carried out,” he continued.
Acevedo appeared on the Sunday show after writing a viral Facebook post about his despair in the wake of the Friday shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas that left at least 10 dead.
Seems like a good guy and it’s good to see this in the political moment. There’s no clearer demonstration of Republican unwillingness to do the people’s will or work for the common good. This isn’t the first prominent law-enforcement individual or group to call for commonsense gun control.
It’s actually a beautifully written post. Couldn’t be clearer. I wish we could see much more of this from leadership.
So not the guy that showed up with an american flag and his gun, I’m guessing.
Here is a man who obviously does not depend on NRA money to get elected.
May his courage inspire more law enforcement officials to stand up and admit they agree.