Ted Cruz Chewed Out at Restaurant for Speech at NRA Convention: ‘Why Did You Take Blood Money?’
thewrap.comspoke at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston, roughly a four-hour drive from where a mass shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde three days earlier. “Why does this keep happening?” a visibly shaken restaurant-goer said. “Why did you come here, to the convention, to take blood money?
Why — when 19 children died. Nineteen children died! That’s on your head! That’s on your head.”The senator stood silently, smiled and waved as guards pushed away the enraged, emotional critic.Someone heckled Ted Cruz while he was eating at a restaurant last night“19 children died!
That’s on your hands! Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!” pic.twitter.com/PaeiQYqfBoDuring his lengthy speech at the convention, Cruz also blamed the murders on everything other than the ease of getting guns as the root cause for the country’s disproportionately high rate of massacres.
The arch-conservative politician said declining church attendance, violent video games, prescription drugs, social media bullying and other societal factors were to blame.Cruz has faced intense backlash since the May 24 shooting for suggesting that “door control” — with schools having one entrance and exit — would help stop mass shootings from taking place.
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