Four years ago, the city council governing Allen, Texas, was asked to approve construction of a large gun range in the town. Only one member of the council, Lauren Doherty, voted against it. Doherty said that vote cost her seat on the municipal body when she ran for re-election two years later. “My vote – and my voice – were one of the reasons that I had an opponent” who ultimately won the race, Doherty said Sunday. She recalled her electoral defeat a day after a mass murderer shot eight people to death in her hometown before he was killed...