Texas Democratic Party official Manny Garcia said Monday that Texans “are ready for change” on meaningful gun reform in light of a deadly shooting in El Paso over the weekend.

“We need to make sure that we are ending gun violence with substantive reform and I think what we will see is the majority of Texas agrees that it’s time to do something and they’re ready for change,” Garcia, who is an executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, told Hill.TV.

Garcia noted that while many Texans are proud gun owners, many also are in favor of "common-sense gun reform."

"Many of us believe we don’t need to be carrying them on our hip — many of us don’t want to make the job of law enforcement more difficult, many of us want to make sure that everybody is properly trained and properly background checked so that we are all safe," he told Hill.TV.

Garcia added he was personally frustrated and disappointed by the way leaders in the state reacted to the shooting, which left 20 dead and a dozen others wounded.

"Many of them did not confront head-on that this is white nationalistic terrorism," he said. "That the language that they use in the discourse affects this entire environment."

Police on Saturday apprehended a heavily armed shooter after he opened fire at a busy Walmart close to the Mexican border in El Paso.

Authorities are now treating the shooting as a case of domestic terrorism and possibly a hate crime. The 21-year-old shooter had allegedly written a white nationalist manifesto ahead of his attack.

After Trump's immigration rhetoric came under renewed scrutiny, the president on Monday called on the nation to condemn white supremacy, saying “these sinister ideologies must be defeated.”

Republicans in the state, meanwhile, have blamed the attack on a number of factors, including video games.

During an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Sunday, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), said he saw the El Paso shooting as a “hate crime against immigrations,” and emphasized that “many factors” play a role in mass shootings.

“What’s changed in this country? We’ve always had guns, we’ve always had evil, but what’s changed where we’ve seen this rash of shooting? And I see a video game industry that teaches young people to kill," Patrick said, adding that the violence on social media could also be a factor.

The attack in El Paso marked the second mass shooting in less than 24 hours. At least nine people were killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

—Tess Bonn