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Students at Westwood High School describe the threat of school shootings as a “constant fear.” Last May, at Santa Fe High School, near Houston, that fear became reality when, authorities say, a 17-year-old high school junior killed 10 people and injured 13 more.

Now, nearly a year later, lawmakers at the Texas Capitol are working to boost mental health resources on campuses statewide, expand the school marshal program and implement myriad safety measures.

Noticeably absent from the conversation: any semblance of gun control.

Some students at Westwood High School in Austin say that’s a problem and is emblematic of the divide between students in fear of a future shootings and the lawmakers attempting to prevent them.

Watch as we explore the issue in the latest episode our mini-documentary series, “Under the Dome.”

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Alana Rocha was the director of news partnerships for The Texas Tribune until June 2022. She was previously a multimedia reporter, after working in television and radio news for eight years. Alana covered...

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Richard Loria was a 2019 video journalism fellow at The Texas Tribune. He is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and a former intern at The Mail & Guardian, a South African news organization....

Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...

Woojae Julia Song was a 2019 multimedia fellow at the Texas Tribune. Julia is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and Asian American Studies. She previously worked as a...