The parents Lexi Rubio showed Ted Cruz a photo of their daughter during a recent...
a ban on assault weapons Wednesday after the parents of a 10-year-old killed during the mass shooting in Uvalde showed him a photo of their daughter in her casket.
Kimberely Matao-Rubio and her husband Felix on Wednesday tweeted about the meeting with the Texas senator. “Felix shared our last photo of Lexi – in her child-size casket – as we asked @tedcruz to protect his constituents by supporting a federal ban on assault weapons,” Matao-Rubio wrote on Twitter. “He declined. Instead, he said he supports increasing law enforcement presence on school campuses.”
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