Blade_Runner wrote:
Hope in one hand, s**t in the other, see which one fills up fastest.
You googled, saw a headline--Cruz: El Paso shooting an act of 'terrorism and w***e s*******y', and posted the link. Good job, troll. Senator Cruz said absolutely nothing about fighting the NRA or imposing more gun controls.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday condemned the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, as "a heinous act of terrorism and w***e s*******y."
“We must speak clearly to combat evil in any form it takes. What we saw yesterday was a heinous act of terrorism and w***e s*******y. There is no place for this in El Paso, in Texas, or anywhere across our nation,” Cruz tweeted Sunday. “We are all Americans and we are all standing united with El Paso.”
He added that as a “son of a Cuban immigrant,” he is “deeply horrified by the h**eful anti-Hispanic bigotry expressed in the shooter’s so-called ‘manifesto.’”
His statement comes after a gunman k**led 20 people and wounded at least 26 more at a Walmart in the city. Authorities are treating the mass k*****g as a case of domestic terrorism.
The shooting on Saturday, which was followed by another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, a day later, drew immediate calls from Democrats to pass gun reform, as well as condemnations of President Trump's rhetoric aimed at minorities and people of foreign origin.
Cruz's colleague, Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) responded to the shooting by pushing back against the calls to pass gun control legislation.
He tweeted that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
“Sadly, there are some issues, like homelessness and these shootings, where we simply don't have all the answers,” the Republican senator said, adding that some progress has been made by “improving the broken background check system, improving access to mental health treatment, by hardening soft targets like our schools, by enhanced training for law enforcement and mental health professionals.”
“But we need to keep trying. Focusing on law abiding citizens exercising their constitutional rights solves nothing. We need to treat these crimes as problems to be solved, rather than one to be exploited for partisan political gain.”
2020 p**********l candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, who challenged Cruz in 2018, blamed Trump for encouraging r****t attacks and likened the president’s rhetoric to that of N**i Germany's Third Reich. Other 2020 Democrats have drawn a connection between Trump's
A handful of Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) should call for an immediate special Senate session to v**e on a universal background check bill the Democratic-controlled House passed in February.
A spokesperson for McConnell did not respond to a request for comment.
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cruz called out white terrorism and white nationalist supremacy.
Quit acting like your boyfriend trump and making up alternative facts.