Fellow presidential candidates join the Texas politicians in demanding action on gun control following a deadly shooting
Beto O'Rourke, Julián Castro and their fellow Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday condemned a mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, that left at least five people dead and 21 injured.
Initial reports from Midland police said there may have been one or more suspects who opened fire at random from a stolen postal vehicle. The University of Texas Permian Basic campus went into lockdown. Police later confirmed that a lone shooter had been killed. After the El Paso shooting, O'Rourke left the campaign trail, returning to his hometown, which is some 300 miles from Midland.
"Don’t know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them, but we do know this is fucked up," O'Rourke said in Fairfax Station, Virginia, during a rally for Dan Helmer, who is running for Virginia House 40th District. "We do know that this has to stop in this country. There is no reason that we have to accept this as our fortune, as our future, as our fate, yet functionally right now we have.
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