Texas Senator Ted Cruz joined 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang in urging law enforcement officials and the news media against using the names of mass shooters.
Cruz, an anti-gun control Republican, said he agreed with Yang and others who argue that suspects in mass shootings should not have their names repeated or their motives explored in the wake of the country's latest firearm massacre. Critics and gun control advocates say Cruz and Texas law enforcement officials simply don't want to the name and motive of the perpetrator in Saturday's Odessa, Texas shooting discussed because he was a white male who previously failed a background check.
Discussion of whether or not release was prompted by Odessa police not broadcasting the shooter's name during a live television news conference, but instead placing it in a Facebook post. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke declared,"I'm not going to give him any notoriety for what he did."and others across the country to stop the spread of mass shooters' names or highlighting of their motives has been dubbed the"No Notoriety" movement.
"Not only did the Odessa gunman have a criminal history ... he also previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas," the Republican governor said in a tweet." he didn't go thru a background check for the gun he used in Odessa. We must keep guns out of criminals' hands." Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe joined critics of both Cruz and Yang who said the withholding of mass shooters' names allows pro-gun politicians and NRA members to hide what he sees as their active role in allowing mass shootings.
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