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Texas Lawmaker Wants to Allow Guns in Hospitals

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Texas state Rep. Drew Springer (R) is pushing legislation that would allow staff and visitors to bring firearms into hospitals for self-defense, KERA-TV reports.

A few years ago, when Springer went to visit a Deputy Sheriff at a Fort Worth hospital, he had to leave his gun in the car.

Said Springer: “I go up and see the deputy and then I come back. I spend the next 10 minutes walking in a dark parking lot to get to my car in downtown Fort Worth and I absolutely did not feel safe.”

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