'Don't look away,' youth4beto urged gun control advocates. 'Rally against the NRA.'
As national and local gun control advocacy groups prepared to rally in Houston on Friday to protest the National Rifle Association's annual meeting days after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Indivisible Houston reported that Sen. Ted Cruz"made an early appearance" at the convention with a"startling admission."
Indivisible Houston displayed the cutout as it joined faith groups, Moms Demand Action, Youth for Beto, and the local Black Lives Matter chapter in planning to protest at nearby Discovery Green this weekend.The powerful gun rights organization has faced calls to cancel the convention as the nation mourns its latest mass shooting victims, including 19 children and two teachers who were killed by an 18-year-old gunman Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
Indivisible Houston meanwhile accused Cruz in the hours after the shooting of profiting"off of the bodies of children" as he plans to speak at the convention.
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