8 Feb 2021
At least 23 people were shot, three fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
On Sunday, Breitbart News noted 14 people were shot, one fatally, Friday through Saturday alone. That one fatality occurred when shots rang out early Saturday morning at Indian Lakes Hotel in Bloomingdale, a Chicago-area community.
NBC 5 quoted Bloomingdale Public Safety Director Frank Giammarese saying, “It appears that there were a couple of different groups attending different events at the hotel…[when] something transpired and that’s when the shooting took place, mostly in the hallways at the hotel.”
By Monday morning, ABC 7 /
Chicago Sun-Timesreported the total number of weekend shooting victims had risen to 23, with two more fatalities.
21 Jan 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wore a mask emblazoned with the Gonzales Flag’s “Come and Take It” logo to President Joe Biden’s inauguration Wednesday.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) tweeted a photo of Cruz at the event:
Sen. @TedCruz Sends Strong Message With Mask at Biden’s Inauguration pic.twitter.com/K3IsGitsCA
Former President Donald Trump told gun controllers to “Come and Take It” during his speech at the 2018 NRA convention, and he explained the origins of the Gonzales motto:
In 1835, soldiers from General Santa Anna’s army marched into the little Texas town of Gonzales and ordered those Texans to surrender their small cannon that they relied on to protect their lives and protect their homes. The Texans refused! They were not about to give up their only means of self-defense.