HOUSTON, TX – Over Memorial Day weekend, an unidentified man hostilely approached Republican Sen. Ted Cruz while at a Houston restaurant, clearly angered over the Republican senator for having attended the NRA conference in Houston in the wake of the tragic mass shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers at an Uvalde elementary school.
The Republican senator was reportedly accosted the evening of May 27th at an undisclosed establishment ostensibly in Houston, considering the enraged rantings of the man who had to be held back and subsequently ushered out of the eatery made reference to the NRA conference taking place in Texas.
‘Then why did you come here to the convention? To take blood money. Why? When 19 children died – 19 children died! That’s on your hands! That’s on your hands! Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!”
Whether the actions of the enraged restaurant patron are excusable or not, it is without a doubt that the tragic mass shooting at the elementary school mere days earlier in Uvalde has sparked some intense emotions within Texas and across the country.
The fact that the mass shooting that stole the lives of 19 children and two teachers coincidentally occurred days prior to a long-ago scheduled NRA conference in the very state where the shooting occurred can certainly be observed as the epitome of, albeit unintended, poor timing. Ergo, the outburst in the restaurant Sen. Cruz was eating at.
But the outrage over the Houston NRA conference wasn’t merely relegated to a restaurant that Sen. Cruz was eating at, there were of course protests and demonstrations held outside the actual conference itself.
Protesters who’d amassed outside of the convention on May 27th were reportedly engaged in the predictable profanity-laced rhetoric against firearms, with some saying the likes of “Fuck your guns,” and referring to conference participants as being “murderers.”
In the realm of hot, and arguably dangerous, takes in the wake of the mass shooting aimed at the NRA convention in Houston, popular YouTuber Ethan Klein suggested to his nearly three million subscribers on the platform that someone should “bomb” the NRA conference building.
“So, there was a big protest outside of the NRA meeting which was good. Do we have any insight into what they’re actually talking about there at the NRA meeting that’s today in Texas? Someone should bomb that building.”
Following the comments of Klein encouraging acts of terrorism, he was reportedly suspended from YouTube for a week. The podcast host took to Twitter on May 29th following the news of his one-week suspension from the platform, claiming conservatives “got triggered” over him calling for an act of domestic terrorism.
“Conservatives got triggered over jokes I told & mass reported me. I got banned for a week and the episode was removed. If only they cared about dead kids as much as they do jokes…So I wanna say sorry. Sorry y’all are such pathetic snowflakes. Fuck the NRA & fuck Abbott.”
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on May 30, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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Why is it I never see or hear about the “radical” right screaming at politicians in public or doing what we should call “A Beto”? Only the peace-seeking left does it.
why isn’t this considered a form of assault?
Why wasn’t he arrested for assault? Assault doesnlt have tobe physical for it to be labeled as an assault.