Gov. Greg Abbott appoints first school safety chief four months after Uvalde shooting

Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference a day after the Uvalde school shooting in May. On Monday, he appointed John P. Scott, a former Secret Service agent, to serve as the first chief of school safety and security, a position the governor created after the mass shooting.

Scott formerly served as a Secret Service agent in the Vice Presidential Protective Division from 2006 and 2010 during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, according to his LinkedIn profile. He later helped lead the Secret Service field office in Dallas. Abbott directed the TEA to create the position four months ago in June, just over two weeks after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde.

Since the shooting in May, Uvalde parents have called to raise the age to buy semi-automatic rifles — the kind of guns that the Uvalde gunman bought immediately after his 18th birthday in May — from 18 to 21. In August, Abbott said it would be “unconstitutional” to raise the age, citing a federal ruling that Texas cannot ban 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns.

TexasTribune He must be polling poorly in the regard. He is only motivated by politics.

TexasTribune And how many years since the first school shooting under his watch as Govenor?..

TexasTribune I hate the new safety rules for our school. They don't make kids safer, and they make school life miserable by overcrowding common areas and severely restricting student liberty. Gun owners in Texas should be ashamed of what we have become.

TexasTribune Well, I guess that fixes it. 🙄

TexasTribune What’s a “school safety chief” going to do that an entire police force couldn’t (utterly failed) to do? Write a report? UvaldeMassacre

TexasTribune Just another way to move money from public schools to the private sector.

TexasTribune Now only because you really looked bad at the debate. ItCouldHaveBeenWorse

TexasTribune Something gregabbott_tx should have done after SutherlandSprings & SantaFeHS MassShooting. BetoForABetterTexas

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