Discussion: Cruz On Gun Control After TX Shooting: 'We Don't Need Politics Right Now'

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Fuck you.

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Oh you big fraud. ‘Politics’. That’s only something YOU use for gain, right? The rest of the time you use it as a bat.

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Cruz celebrated one person who responded the shooting by retrieving his own gun and shooting at the alleged murderer, Devin Kelly, until Kelly fled the scene.

I sure hope that it doesn’t turn out to be the case, but what are the chances that some of the victims were actually shot, accidentally, by the person being celebrated by Cruz?

Now that that’s out of the way, will someone please punch Cruz in the face, or at least break a few of his ribs?

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It is impossible to overstate what a prime asshole Ted Cruz really is.

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No Ted. We need 'Effin Gun Control!

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He continued: “I would note in New York we saw a terror attack just this week with a truck. Evil is evil is evil, and will use the weaponry that is available.,” the no-account Senator from Texas quipped.

It’s a damn shame those poor parishioners weren’t armed with republican talking points, which seem impenetrable.

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But he sure needs more than the $36,000 the NRA already gave him…

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2012&id=D000000082

Not to mention the $360,000+ he received from pro-gun groups…

Gosh, ya know, it’s almost like he’s being paid to say a certain thing…

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If not now, when?

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“Do we need gun control now, sir?” a reporter asked Cruz during a press briefing.
“You know, it is an unfortunate thing that the immediate place the media goes after any tragedy, after any murder is politicizing it,” Cruz said. “We don’t need politics right now.”

Agreed, Ted. We don’t need politics. We need safety, life-saving safety regulations, to do what we can to prevent this kind of tragedy from continuing to happen. Some call it gun control, some call it firearm regulation, background checks for gun purchases, commonsense gun laws. But, it’s only politics when those who take political donations from gun manufacturers, ammunition manufacturers, and the sacred NRA, turn it into politics to protect their donors and their profits. People like you.

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“We I don’t need politics want to think about solving this problem right now ever.”

FIFY.

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“We don’t need politics right now.” All the while hoping for another massacre before the time comes to talk politics about banning assault weapons. I don’t know why these NRA bought politicians show up at these tragedies or even comment. They should just send in comments made after the last 5 or 6 mass shootings. Then accept their gratuities from the NRA.

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Seriously Ted, if you own a weapon and some ammo you won’t need to rent a truck to kill people, and if you’re a trained veteran it’d be a lot easier to achieve your goal.

Stick your “politics” comment right up your asshole.

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What we don’t need are any more piles of bullet riddled bodies.

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I am finding it difficult to continue to sympathize at the same level after this tragedy in Texas. If someone in that church has worked for stricter control of automatic weapons and has lost that fight and is not in a position to move elsewhere, then I sincerely empathize with their grief. However, probably 90+% of these folks want everyone to be able to carry an AK-47 whenever and wherever they want to. If they are willing to endorse that position, then they will have to live with the possibility that it is dangerous for their family members to go to church. I am not seeing any evidence that even the people who lost family members are willing to reconsider their positions. It may make me a bad person, but my well of “thoughts and prayers” is running dry.

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Calgary Ted could read up on firearms laws in his birthplace and why they have death and injury rates far below ours.

“According to a StatsCan report from 2012 – the most recent year available – the U.S. suffered a total of 8,813 murders involving the use of firearms that year. Canada, in the same year, recorded just 172 firearms-related homicides.

“When looking at firearm-related homicide rates in comparable countries, Canada’s rate is about seven times lower than that of the United States (3.5 per 100,000 population), although it is higher than several other peer countries.“

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“Lucifer in the flesh,” Boehner told an audience at Stanford University on Wednesday night, according to the Stanford Daily. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

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The man did confront the shooter and exchange fire with him, but that happened as the shooter was leaving the church. He’d already done the damage he intended to do.

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I don;t think it is the case from the description given, but who knows. I don’t think anyone else was shooting inside the church.

Its only “politics” if you say guns are bad. If you say they are good, then well that’s just celebrating heroism.

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