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Analisa Trofimuk | Better Government Association

Fact-check: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott misfires with half-cocked shots at Chicago’s ‘tougher’ gun laws

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott holds a news conference at Uvalde High School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25. (Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, after a mass shooting at an elementary school in his state, pointed to Chicago as an example of how “real gun laws” fail to protect school children and teachers from shootings.  

“I hate to say this, but there are more people who were shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas,” he said during a nationally televised news conference the day after the shooting.  

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