The parents of a child who was killed in the Uvalde school shooting met with Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday and asked him to support a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons.
The senator declined and instead suggested increasing law enforcement presence on school campuses.
Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter Lexi was killed in the shooting, recounted the meeting to The Texas Tribune and on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon. Felix Rubio, Lexi’s father, presented Cruz a picture of his daughter “in her child-size casket” while asking for a federal semi-automatic weapon ban, Mata-Rubio wrote. A total of 19 students and two teachers were killed in the massacre — the worst school shooting in Texas history.
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