“You are not our enemies. We are not yours. We extend our hand opened and unarmed in a gesture of peace and fellowship,” Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke tells attendees to the NRA Convention in Houston, happening three days after the murder of 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, about 4 hours from Houston. O’Rourke’s message is one of acting on widely popular gun control measures favored by the vast majority of Americans–and NRA members–but which are being blocked by Republican politicians swimming in NRA PAC donations.