Driftwood lawmaker joins call for gun reform special session

A Driftwood-area lawmaker is joining a handful of state legislators asking Texas’ top elected official to call a special session to talk gun reform.

While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quashed the request for now, State Rep. Erin Zwiener (D-Driftwood) hopes to generate some discussion on the topic, perhaps even reform, sooner rather than later.

Calls for Abbott to call a special session comes weeks after a Plano man entered an El Paso Walmart Aug. 3 and killed 22 people, all of them Latino, under the premise of preventing an “invasion” of migrants. Lawmakers that had called for a special session include Zwiener, State Rep. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) and State Rep. Gina Hinajosa (D-Austin), according to a Texas Tribune report.