Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference in Uvalde after mass shooting that left nineteen children and two adults dead.
Abbott said he would hand over the microphone to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick when O’Rourke got up. up. “You’re not doing anything,” O’Rourke said, adding that the shooting was “totally predictable” because gun laws were not enforced after other executions in state.
Patrick told O’Rourke to “sit down … You out of line in awkward collision “and called on O’Rourke leave the room.
“I can’t believe you’re sick son of ab**** come to place like make it political issuePatrick shouted. over O’Rourke.
Law enforcement officers came to accompany O’Rourke. out of in news conference later. Janet Shamalian of CBS News said it looks like some people places have been saved for O’Rourke.
After O’Rourke was escorted outAbbott did not address the incident directly but called for unity, saying that “every Texan, every American has a responsibility where we need focus not on ourselves and our plans, but we need concentrate on healing and hope that we can provide to those who suffered unjustified damage to their lives and losses of a life.”
“We need all Texans in this moment in it’s time to decide personal matters, to think of someone other than ourselves, I think of someone who was injured and help someone who hurt,” he continued.
After O’Rourke left, he told reporters, “These kids died because the governor of state of Texas, the most powerful Human in the state chose to do nothing.”
“After every one of these, he’s holding a press conference just like this is me wish to hell with when he came to El Paso, what would someone stand up and brought him to justice, and resisted him, and shook his conscience of This state makes you do something,” O’Rourke said. “Because if we do nothing, we will continue to see it. One year later yearschool after school, child after child. This is on all of us each one of us to do something.”
During his failed presidential run in 2019, O’Rourke was outspoken advocate for gun control measures. BUT former congressman, O’Rourke represented El Paso, where gunman shot 23 people.
After that shooting O’Rourke memorably said during the “Hell yeah, we’re taking your guns” presidential debate over the AR-15. Abbott and other law enforcement officials said Wednesday that the shooter in uvalde used AR-15.
Before O’Rourke interrupted him, Abbott called. for mental health crisis solutions in Uvalde, although he also said the shooter was unknown history of mental illness. Abbott said local officials told him that “we have problem with mental health, illness, in This community.”
