ing it was the way to change laws and society.

Tijerina promoted his arrest as a win, attempting to get the attention of President Trump and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

 On October 26, 2026, Jon Tijerina was arrested for spraying red paint on Freedom Tower in NYC. He is demanding that Trump and Mamdani enforce common-sense, highly popular demands with respect to guns such as Universal Background Checks and a National Gun Registry,  Tijerina's organization wrote in a follow-up post.

He cited the mass shooting after the Florida A M homecoming football game as a reason for his alleged vandalism.

Tijerina's  civil resistance organization  made two demands to  Just Stop Killing Kids  - calling for universal background checks and universal gun registry.

 We have two specific, achievable demands. Both have majority public support. Both already exist in other high-income countries. Neither requires repealing the Second Amendment. We are not asking for the impossible - we are asking for what every other wealthy democracy already has,  the website states.

Tijerina complained Monday that another one of his political protests, a recent seven-day fast didn't receive any attention.

His alleged weeklong protest was to demand 2 million affordable housing units be made available in the city within 5 years.