Texas Governor's Website Continues To Tout Shotgun Giveaway After School Shooting
CHICAGO (CNN) -- A gunman armed with a .38 revolver and a shotgun walked into Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday and killed 10 people, according to authorities.
Two days later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is still touting a shotgun giveaway on his website.
The entry period for the drawing began on May 1, before the shooting in Santa Fe, and ends on May 31.
Participants in the giveaway enter with a chance to win a $250 certificate that can be redeemed at a licensed gun dealer in Central Texas.
Entrants must be Texas residents, per the governor's campaign website, and at least 18 years old. They must also be legally allowed to buy a pump-action shotgun.
Vikki Goodwin, a candidate for the State House District 47 in west Travis County, was door-to-door campaigning on Saturday afternoon when she came across a door hanger advertising the giveaway.
"I was just astounded that he was giving away a shotgun," Goodwin told CNN. "The timing of it just seemed really bad."
Goodwin noted she only saw the door hanger on one house and didn't know how long it had been there. "I thought, 'Surely they didn't just put this on the door and say they're giving away a shotgun right after 10 people have died as a result of another school shooting,'" she said.
The Austin chapter of March for Our Lives -- the gun control initiative started by students in Parkland, Florida, after their own school shooting, blasted the governor on Twitter for the giveaway.
The group demanded he take the page on his website down.
"To put it bluntly, we find this a disgusting display of disregard of the toll gun violence takes and an absolute failure to respect your constituents in the wake of the #SantaFe shootings," the chapter said on Twitter.
