Convoy of empty school buses a mile long crossed it Texas on a mission to reach the home of Senator Ted Cruz. Every vacancy of the mobile art installation, idea of the founder of the organization “Change The Ref”, Manuel Oliver accounts for the more than 4,000 victims of gun attacks at US schools in recent years.
Manuel Oliver and his wife Patricia lost their son Joaquin in a shooting at a Parkland school in 2018.
“We’re trying to make a difference in this fight against gun violence through non-traditional ways,” the Change The Ref founder told People magazine.
“The National Rifle Association (NRA) puts money in the pockets of our representatives,” Oliver said.
“Ted Cruz has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the NRA and that is why things are not moving forward. This has to stop. Our leaders must start putting lives before profits,” he added.
Inside the “NRA Children’s Museum” facility, as reported by APE-MPE, belongings of children who lost their lives in armed attacks are kept, gloves, shoes, kindergarten graduation certificate, photos, videos.
“According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as of 2020, guns have overtaken car accidents to become the leading cause of death for children” “Change The Ref” press release states.
Five years before he died, Joaquin Oliver wrote a letter about a school gun control program. His father delivered the letter to a clerk outside the home of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“I am writing this letter to talk to you about how we are going to solve the issue with the gun movement,” the letter reads. Most of you have a problem with the idea of universal gun background checks. Why are you angry that there is control, it’s for your own good, maybe you like having madmen with death machines. You shouldn’t have anything against gun control if you’re innocent.”
Manuel Oliver said Ted Cruz is the first politician to be visited by the NRA Children’s Museum.
“To every politician who took money from the NRA and refused to listen to the people they represent, I say: The Museum is on its way to honor you with a visit sometime soon.”
Source: News Beast
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