Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was heckled at a Houston restaurant on Friday night, following his speech at the National Rifle Association’s convention, in which he broadly rejected proposals for gun control, days after the Uvalde school shooting.
A video shared on social media shows Cruz standing stoically at Uptown Sushi in Houston as a man challenges him to support expanding background checks on gun sales, which the senator and many of his Republican colleagues have rejected.
“Why did you come here to the convention?” the man, later identified as Benjamin Hernandez, asked Cruz. “Why? When 19 children died!”
As Hernandez was pulled away by security officials, he said to Cruz: “That’s on your hands! That’s on your hands, Ted Cruz! That’s on your hands!”
Cruz waved goodbye to him before rejoining his family at their table.
Neither Cruz’s office nor the owners of Uptown Sushi immediately responded to requests for comment early Saturday.
Cruz confronted at restaurant over gun control after Uvalde shooting
- by: Timothy Bella and Adela Suliman
- 05.28.22
- Source:
Washington Post
- 05/29/2022
Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore is licensed under flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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