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AUSTIN, Texas – Beto O’Rourke confronted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials in Uvalde on Saturday, just four months after a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. He said he doesn’t regret it.
A day after the shooting, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas interrupted a press conference to tell Abbott and others who were briefing the community that they were “doing nothing” to stop future carnage.
On Saturday, O’Rourke again criticized Abbott for attending a campaign fundraiser about 300 miles from Uvalde just hours after the shooting.
“He didn’t show up at Uvalde until the next day and the first words came out of his mouth…he said to the families of those children, ‘It could have been worse,'” O’Rourke said Saturday. told The Texas Tribune to The Festival in Austin.
“No, I don’t regret being there. I wanted to fight for Uvalde’s family, for families across the state. Now is the perfect time to stop the next school shooting.” That is, at least, the age of purchase from AR-15 to 21 years old.
The confrontation was quickly criticized by other officials, with Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin calling O’Rourke “a sick son who makes deals like this to create political problems.”
The Uvalde investigation details a “systematic failure” in law enforcement’s response to school shootings.
Abbott told KENS in July that during a fundraiser about 300 miles east of Uvalde in Huntsville, he was “in constant communication with my office or with the Texas Department of Public Safety” and was “informed about any information that needed to be obtained.” .”
“And, importantly, I shut the campaign down completely and just focused on the people of Uvalde,” Abbott told the news outlet.
O’Rourke made gun reform the centerpiece of his campaign against Abbott. Last month, he exploded when an onlooker started laughing while the Democratic candidate was criticizing Texas’ gun control laws.
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“Mother may go crazy, but I’m not crazy,” cried O’Rourke from Mineral Wells City Hall.
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O’Rourke served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing parts of West Texas, until losing to Republican Senator Ted Cruz in 2018 and failing to run for president in 2020. is an unfavorable candidate for Abbott.
“The fact that Texas kids entered school this semester, last month, didn’t protect them from aggressive shooters any more than the kids who were in Uvalde at the end of May. Think about it, and change that.” O’Rourke said Saturday. “The best way to change that is to win this election on November 8th.”