The Breakdown - school safety

As this is an election year, many are keeping close eye on what elected officials are promising, and what actions they end up taking.

Here's a breakdown on some of what's taken place since Friday’s shooting.

“I’m sorry but you can’t go to church on Sunday and talk about faith, and then on Monday do nothing about carnage,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says.

Chief Acevedo has gotten national attention for voicing a feeling a lot of people have—that elected officials need to do more than talk the talk in the wake of school shootings.

“No one thing alone is going to have a significant impact. We need action. The one thing is for members of both sides of the political spectrum to stop worrying about the political theater and the out of touch basis of the spectrum and start worrying about good policy,” Acevedo says.

Here's what some of them are doing in the wake of the Santa Fe School shooting.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Office announced Tuesday will be the first of the round table discussions he promised on Friday

“We need to have people participating in this round table who will bring a diversity of ideas, strategies, thoughts and concerns,” Gov. Abbott says.

You can go to gov.texas.gov/school-safety to call, mail, or submit online suggestions for lawmakers to consider in the meetings.

In Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner has formed a task force on gun violence, and mentioned wanting to take action on school campuses.

“This was a kid who walked into Santa Fe High School with a shotgun underneath a trench coat. Had he gone through a metal detector that would’ve been discovered,” Mayor Turner said. “It’s not the perfect solution, but I don’t want to go through this anymore.

It’s something a lot of people want to see but the mayor didn’t mention specifics on whether and how that might happen.

Texas Senator John Cornyn stands alongside a couple of other elected leaders who have made another suggestion.

“Whether parents and others should have a legal obligation to secure these firearms from people like their children who are going through some sort of crisis,” Cornyn said.

But as we’ve seen in recent years, changes to gun laws can become controversial. We’ll have to wait and see how this idea plays out.