Victims and survivors of mass shootings in Texas took part in a final round of talks on Thursday with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking ways to stop gun massacres after a shooter killed 10 people in a Houston-area high school.
The talks are the third and last in a series this week. They came days after a teenage student gunned down eight fellow classmates and two teachers at Santa Fe High School, the latest in a series of U.S. mass school shootings that stoked a simmering national debate about preventing the carnage on campuses.
"After our school shooting, it was hard to talk about it," said Morgan Molsbee, a student at Alpine High School in West Texas, where in late 2016 a 14-year-old girl shot and wounded a fellow student and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.