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After El Paso Shooting, Suburban Houston Voters Reexamine Their Own Views On Guns

Texas is home to some of the deadliest shootings in modern U.S. history. It's making some in a once solidly Republican community outside Houston revisit their positions on gun control.
A woman prays at a makeshift memorial for shooting victims at the Cielo Vista Mall Walmart, in El Paso, Texas.

After back-to-back mass shootings, residents in one Houston suburb are demanding members of Congress finally take action to stop a deadly trend in America.

Fort Bend County is home to Sugar Land and other cities where demographics and political stripes are dramatically changing. And voters in the 22nd congressional district who have elected Republicans opposed to major gun restrictions in recent years may be considering giving a Democrat the job in 2020.

It's pressure like this from these suburban communities in other parts of the country that could shift the debate on gun measures in Congress this fall.

Criticism of gun lobby

"I don't think the NRA is doing its job that it was originally set out to do. They've become far too strident and Second Amendment — more guns, screw everybody else," said

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