Powerful testimony on Thursday
(World News USA)

The sisters of one of Odessa´s Aug. 31 mass shooting victims Thursday called on a panel of state legislators to stop kowtowing to the National Rifle Association, show political courage and pass common sense gun sale reforms. Carla Byrne and Marcy Askins, sisters of Joseph Bryan `Joe` Griffith, told the House Select Committee on Mass Violence Prevention & Community Safety that Griffith´s murderer should not have been able to buy a 5.56-millimeter AR-15 assault rifle surreptitiously in Lubbock after failing a federal background check. `My brother owned guns and valued the Second Amendment,` said Byrne, executive director of career and technical education at ECISD. `I own a gun. We have an...