Houston Chronicle
Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday issued a celebratory tweet minutes after a jury in Wisconsin cleared Kyle Rittenhouse of wrongdoing after he killed two men and wounded another during protests last year over police conduct.
“
Rittenhouse — NOT GUILTY!” Abbott tweeted.
“This verdict reiterates that every American has the God-given right to self-defense and the protections of the Second Amendment,” Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said in a statement.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton were among those who also welcomed the ruling.
“Are you our governor or a white supremacist troll?” Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, tweeted in response.
A spokeswoman for Abbott indicated that the governor had no further comment.
Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic U.S. congressman who is running for Texas governor, said he is committed to “finding common sense solutions to gun violence in America.”
“We shouldn’t have to worry about being shot with weapons of war in our communities,” he said in a statement.
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