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Ted Cruz denounces new gun restrictions as he argues with hecklers in Austin
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz vehemently defended Texas’ gun legal guidelines at The Texas Tribune Pageant on Saturday, participating in a spirited debate with viewers members about semi-automatic rifles, mass shootings and college safety.
Cruz, in an onstage dialog with the Washington Examiner’s David M. Drucker in Austin, blasted Democrats for his or her response to mass shootings, saying the occasion needs to take firearms away from law-abiding residents.
On the conclusion of the interview, some attendees repeatedly booed and heckled Cruz as he answered an viewers query looking for his concepts on the right way to restrict or forestall mass shootings. Cruz, like many Republican officers, adamantly opposes a ban on semi-automatic rifles. He cited the instance of Stephen Willeford, the person who grabbed a rifle and ran to First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs when he heard a few capturing there, serving to to finish the violence that left 26 victims lifeless.
“The weapon that Stephen used to cease that was an AR-15,” Cruz stated.
Viewers members accused him of not answering the query about how he would finish mass shootings and incessantly shouted over him as he mentioned among the eight mass shootings which have occurred in Texas previously 13 years.
However as crowd members shouted to the stage, the two-term senator pleaded for viewers members to deal with the difficulty civilly, saying they may have a “rational dialogue about what coverage steps would truly work to cease them.”
“If the target is to cease these crimes, gun management is singularly ineffective,” Cruz stated. “If you disarm law-abiding residents … [they] hand over their weapons. The criminals don’t.”
When spectators applauded his allusion to Democrats’ gun management efforts, Cruz brushed the concept off, saying, “You possibly can clap for that, aside from the minor drawback that it doesn’t work.”
The dialog occurred a few three-hour drive from Uvalde, the place 19 youngsters and two academics have been killed in Could by an 18-year-old with an AR-15. Within the aftermath of the capturing, many Uvalde neighborhood members and kin of victims have known as for elevating the age at which Texans should purchase a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. Cruz notably centered his proposed fixes on college safety, calling for armed officers in colleges to maintain youngsters protected and for limiting the doorway to colleges to at least one door.
These proposals have acquired pushback from individuals who say they’d be logistically and financially prohibitive and who word that there have been scores of armed officers on the scene in Uvalde inside minutes of the capturing. Proponents of some gun restrictions say measures like protected storage legal guidelines, enhanced background checks and pink flag legal guidelines, which permit courts to quickly take weapons away from folks judged to be a hazard to themselves or others, could be extra profitable in lowering gun violence.
Within the wake of the Uvalde capturing, Cruz has pushed laws that would offer funding to double the variety of college useful resource officers and considerably improve psychological well being help at colleges.
Cruz stated folks usually have misunderstandings of what constitutes an assault-style rifle and that politicians make the most of that.
As he spoke, an viewers member yelled out, “Violence doesn’t clear up violence.”
“It truly is the one factor that does,” Cruz stated. “Violence doesn’t clear up violence? That’s truly why the left needs to abolish police and why you see homicide charges skyrocketing.”
The Texas Tribune Pageant is right here! Taking place Sept. 22-24 in downtown Austin, this 12 months’s TribFest options greater than 25 digital conversations with company like Eric Adams, Pete Souza, Jason Kander and plenty of others. After they air for ticket holders, anybody can watch these occasions on the Tribune’s Pageant information web page. Make amends for the most recent information and free periods from TribFest.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Cade Klubnik carved up Texas’ defense Saturday night like nobody else this season, just not enough to complete a spectacular homecoming.
Klubnik, Clemson’s junior quarterback from Austin, passed for 336 yards — the most by a Texas opponent this season — and three touchdowns. He directed a second-half comeback that gave No. 12 seeded Clemson a chance to overtake No. 5 Texas after falling behind by 18 at halftime.
But the Tigers fell short, losing the College Football Playoff game 38-24.
“I’m hurting a lot,” Klubnik said. “It was fun to come home, but it was not a vacation. It was time to come win a football game, and we didn’t do that.”
Klubnik led the Tigers (10-4) on a four-play, 55-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter, the final 25 on a pass to running back Jarvis Green that left Clemson trailing 31-17.
He directed a 64-yard touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter. His 7-yard pass to T.J. Moore, on fourth-and-6 left Texas ahead by just a touchdown, 31-24.
“We put ourselves in a position to win,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “That young man (Klubnik) has grown into an amazing leader. You’re never out of a game with him.”
Texas (12-2) made Klubnik’s job a lot tougher when Jaydon Blue raced 77 yards for a touchdown on the Longhorns’ first possession after Moore scored.
Nevertheless, Klubnik led Clemson 74 yards to the Texas 1, connecting with Moore three times, including completions covering 29 and 30 yards.
But Klubnik was stopped by Texas safety Michael Taaffe on third down and Keith Adams was stuffed on fourth by Bill Norton and Barryn Sorrell.
Clemson’s comeback attempt was over when Klubnik’s pass on fourth down was broken up by Taaffe at the Longhorns’ 25 with 1:16 left.
Taaffe and Klubnik were teammates at Westlake High School when they won the 2020 Texas state high school championship together. The quarterback they beat that day? Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers.
That history and rivalry added some extra spice to Klubnik’s trip home.
Another Westlake teammate, Texas defensive end Ethan Burke, sacked Klubnik in the first half Saturday.
Earlier in the week, Taaffe said Klubnik was his “best friend” on the Westlake team when they won that state championship.
“We were definitely sharing words back and forth, that was fun,” Taaffe said. “He’s a great guy. He had a great game.”
Another body was found in the popular Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, where other deceased individuals were found recently.
The latest body found joins the growing mystery after at least 6 additional bodies were found throughout the year in the lake in 2024. On Friday, police were called to investigate reports of a dead person in the water near 1st Street Bridge and the 300 block of Cesar Chavez.
The Austin Police Department (APD) said that they do not suspect foul play as the body showed no signs of trauma, but are investigating the incident.
Despite APD attempting to quell community fears, questions and speculation have run rampant. Police have attributed most of the deaths to accidental drowning due to the lake’s proximity to nightclubs and bars.
BODY FOUND IN SAME AUSTIN LAKE WHERE OTHER DECEASED INDIVIDUALS DISCOVERED IN RECENT MONTHS
Mounted police patrolling down Rainey Street after several bodies appeared in a nearby lake. (Matteo Cina/Fox News Digital)
The most recent body was found on December 1. The victim was recently identified as 73-year-old Thi Lang Nguyen. Austin police said that there is nothing connected to the other deaths this year.
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In September, a man was behaving erratically near East Cesar Chavez and Nueces Streets. He then went into the water and did not resurface. He was later pulled out and pronounced dead.
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Back in February, a woman’s body was found in the water about 20 feet from the north shore and in April, a fisherman spotted another person floating in the water.
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In July, a man was suffering from blunt force trauma on the trail near Rainey Street. The man was pronounced dead a short time later.
In September, a body was found along a trail near the lake off Pleasant Valley Road.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the APD for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
Born and Braised, a food trailer specializing in native wild game meats and seasonal food, recently opened at the Sign Bar in Austin at 9909 FM 969, Building 3. Chef and owner William Woodland, a.k.a. Woody, is looking forward to his new venture and serving wild game meats and other special menu items to Austinites.
Menu items customers will enjoy includes birria tacos, birria ramen, venison frito pie, pulled pork Cubano tortas, venison bratwurst, venison smash burger, and sides like braised greens, beans, and street corn.
Born and Braised started at Lustre Pearl in 2022. The food trailer moved to Sage Brush for over a year. The trailer worked at Bastrop, but now it operates in East Austin at the Sign Bar.
Born and Braised hours include Tuesdays through Fridays from 4 pm to 2 am, and Saturdays from 11 am to 2 am, at Sign Bar Austin (9909 FM 969, Bldg. 3).
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