DUNCAN — Republicans running for Oklahoma governor blamed moral decay and mental illness for school shootings and called for a variety of responses, mostly at the local level.

At a forum held Saturday as part of the annual Stephens County Republican Fish Fry, the candidates were asked about school security in the wake of the latest mass shooting, this one on Friday at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, where eight students and two teachers were killed.

Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb was among the candidates who cited decaying morals as a cause and said he had written legislation and created a commission to make schools safer.

"After the Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy in December 2012, I created the Oklahoma commission on school security — classroom teachers, counselors, nurses, superintendents, district attorneys, school resource officers, from all around the state, to look at whether we're doing enough in Oklahoma," Lamb said.