Mexico City.- After participating on Friday in the annual meeting of the National Association of Rifle (NRA), Senator Ted Cruz was confronted by a citizen, after Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School, which left 21 dead (19 children and two teachers), in Uvalde, Texas.
The indivisible group Houston shared a video on Twitter showing Benjamin Hernandez, a member of the board of directors of this group, first posing for a photo with Cruz and then questioning it.
The activist challenged the senator Cruz to support background checks and other reform measures: “Nineteen kids died!” he told Cruz, as he was led away. “That’s in your hands!”
Hernandez revealed to The Washington Post who approached Cruz because he hoped the senator would address his opposition to initiatives to require background checks on gun sales, which are unlikely to pass in the Senate.
“ I wanted him to give me an answer on something as simple and basic as a background check,” said Hernandez, 39. “But it was as if he was deflecting the responsibility of being a United States senator.”
The confrontation took place at a restaurant called Uptown Sushi, according to Indivisible Houston. The man was escorted away from the senator, who returned to his table.
#BREAKING: Several hours after the #NRAconventionIndivisible Houston board member @TheBenjaminHdz challenged Ted Cruz to support background checks & other reform measures during a dinner break.
See the full clip.#TedCruzHasBloodOnHisHands #TedCruzChildMassacre pic.twitter.com/LxvnaGzZJN
— Indivisible Houston (@indivisibleHOU) May 28, 2022
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Hernandez shared the moment and tweeted, “Challenge them every time. Don’t stop until they do something.”
Indivisible Houston “advocates government of, by, and for the people through education, engagement, and resistance. We build bridges in Houston to fight for a more equitable and progressive world, through political pressure.”
During the week, Cruz left an interview with Sky News after being asked if “now is the time to reform gun laws”.
At the annual convention of the NRA, Cruz criticized the massacre at Robb Elementary School as “evil” while arguing against gun control. “Gun bans don’t work. Look at Chicago. If they worked, Chicago wouldn’t be the murder hell it’s been for far too long,” the senator said Friday.
“ The elites that dominate our culture tell us that guns are the root of the problem,” Cruz said in his address to the crowd Friday. “It is much easier to smear political adversaries and demand that responsible citizens relinquish their constitutional rights than it is to examine the cultural disease, which gives rise to unspeakable acts of evil.”
At the NRA meeting on Friday, former President Donald Trump rejected tighter controls on access to firearms in the aftermath of the Texas school massacre, saying decent citizens should be able to arm themselves to defend themselves from “evil.”
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