Houston police chief: We need people to start using the ballot box to take action on gun control
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 05/20/18 11:45 AM EDT
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said on Sunday that voters need to use the ballot box to achieve change on gun control in the wake of the deadly shooting at a Santa Fe high school last week.
"People at the state level and the federal level in too many places in our country are not doing anything other than offering prayers," Acevedo told CBS's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation."
"We need to start using the ballot box and ballot initiatives to take the matters out of the hands of people that are doing nothing that are elected into the hands of the people to see that the will of the people in this country is actually carried out," he added.
Acevedo aired his frustrations on Facebook on Saturday over the Santa Fe shooting.
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