...it's only a flesh wound.
It wasn't for Beto O'Rourke, he was contesting a Senate seat vs Ted Cruz in 2019. Texas being heavily gerrymandered, O'Rourke needed 70% of the vote in order to win. A white supremacist named Patrick Crusius drove from a Dallas suburb to O'Rourke hometown of El Peso, with his WASR-10. He went to a Wal-Mart and murdered 23 Latinos, wounding another 26. Ted Cruz went on to retain his seat.
Now's not the time to talk about gun control.