AUSTIN — Within minutes of the confirmation that at least eight people had been killed at Santa Fe High School outside Houston, Texas Democrats running for office had begun calling once again for a serious conversation surrounding gun control.

"We have the power to stop putting our children's lives at risk. We must end this. Enough talk," Andrew White, a Houston businessman running for governor, tweeted Friday. His opponent, former Dallas County sheriff Lupe Valdez, sent a statement saying "enough is enough."

"We are living in a time when our children are literally marching in the streets, demanding that we, the adults, make the change to keep them safe," Valdez said. "We will act to make change. There is no other option."

Texas voters have not elected a Democrat to statewide office in 20 years, and gun control is rarely a serious topic for debate in the GOP-dominate state Legislature that recently approved "campus carry" legislation allowing concealed weapons to be carry at colleges and universities.

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