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Ted Cruz uses pistol grip to rebut call for assault weapon ban
Dallas Morning News ^ | 30 January 2013 | TODD J. GILLMAN

Posted on 01/31/2013 11:29:50 AM PST by neverdem

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz displayed a flair for showmanship this afternoon at the Senate’s gun violence hearing as he sought to puncture the argument for a proposed ban on assault weapons.

“What it bans, I would suggest to you, are scary looking guns,” he said.

With a life size photo of a Remington 750, a popular hunting rifle used — as Cruz said, by millions of Americans – the senator argued that the proposed ban focuses on “cosmetic features” such as pistol grips that in no way change the lethality of a weapon.

He produced a plastic pistol grip and held it to the photo to demonstrate...

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: assaultweaponban; banglist; guncontrol; nocompromise; secondamendment; tedcruz; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: TLI

>It depends on what you are “hunting.” <

Chevies? (LOL!)


61 posted on 01/31/2013 3:03:03 PM PST by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

They’d like to think so...

History has repeatedly proven the stupidity of that - for those that try to push it.


62 posted on 01/31/2013 3:14:11 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: BwanaNdege


http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15---evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx

63 posted on 01/31/2013 3:46:13 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Ancesthntr

Yeah, they are PDWs in .gov hands, but evil assault weapons in ours.

And ours are only semi-auto.


64 posted on 01/31/2013 3:57:55 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I would submit that it is exactly the opposite in reality...to wit, that a citizen’s weapon is for “personal defense” rather than any assault. and that the government’s weapon is much more likely to be utilized in an “assault”, as in, an assault on law-abiding citizens who refuse to surrender their firearms.


65 posted on 01/31/2013 4:18:45 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Travis McGee
Yeah, they are PDWs in .gov hands, but evil assault weapons in ours.

Great. Now they're redefining PDWs, too.

I'm beginning to feel the sting of that old joke "in the Soviet Union, not even history is safe from the government."

66 posted on 01/31/2013 4:34:45 PM PST by papertyger
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To: Nervous Tick
Where the hell is Cornyn??!?

Failure to read the entire article before commenting can lead to embarrassing circumstances...

67 posted on 01/31/2013 4:42:31 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: neverdem

Ted Cruz is the hammer. You would never see Ol Kay Baby Hutchinson doing this with a firearm picture. Maybe with a biscuit pan and a can of spray Pam and the horror of something sticking in the oven....oh the HORROR...

On a higher note what about the Texas legistator and HB872. Any firearm manufactured in Texas does not have to conform or fall under jurisdiction of the Federal Firearm laws!!! Upto 1.5” (38”MM)bore including supressors. You want a 20mm Vulcan and it is made in Texas and you can afford it....buy it. Now we gotta get Strauss off his a$$.

Not sure how to paste links but here it is

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB872


68 posted on 01/31/2013 4:43:47 PM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: okie01

Not nearly as embarrassing as your failure to understand the concept of a rhetorical question.

Anyway, I did read the whole article.

I don’t mean “where the hell is Cornyn” physically... I mean “where the hell is is Cornyn” in LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE!

Cornyn may have *lead off* the discussion... but Cruz LED.

If you still don’t get it may I suggest remedial tenth grade analytical reasoning.


69 posted on 01/31/2013 5:35:16 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick
Not nearly as embarrassing as your failure to understand the concept of a rhetorical question.

Anyway, I did read the whole article.

I don’t mean “where the hell is Cornyn” physically... I mean “where the hell is is Cornyn” in LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE!

I happen to agree with your conclusion -- once adequately explained.

But, honestly, thou protesteth too much...

70 posted on 01/31/2013 5:52:20 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

>> But, honestly, thou protesteth too much...

What is *that* supposed to mean?


71 posted on 01/31/2013 5:54:34 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick
What is *that* supposed to mean?

Sigh.

You're a smart guy. Figure it out.

72 posted on 01/31/2013 6:09:09 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well if you guys oust Cornyn in the primary, please make sure you don’t replace him with someone prone to make stupid comments about rape.


73 posted on 01/31/2013 7:16:14 PM PST by Aetius
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To: Aetius

Are you OK with Ted Cruz?


74 posted on 01/31/2013 7:18:05 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Aetius

And who have we elected that made a stupid comment about rape?

I think you are referring to Clayton Williams who was defeated by Ann Richards...

We would have been better off with Clayton...


75 posted on 01/31/2013 7:47:01 PM PST by CenTex (November 6, 2012... A day that will live in infamy!!!)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


76 posted on 01/31/2013 9:09:21 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: ArrogantBustard; Ditter; bgill; sockmonkey
Texas pink-gun ping.

I take it that's a Kalashnikitty sticker?

77 posted on 02/01/2013 12:09:42 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Nervous Tick
Where the hell is Cornyn??!?

Leaning up against the Ritz=Carlton bar, clinking glasses with a bank lobbyist while waiting on his flight to a New Hampshire ski resort, and waving at Bob Menendez in the terminal as Bob heads the other way for another teeny-hooker weekend down in the Islands.

78 posted on 02/01/2013 12:13:29 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: okie01; Nervous Tick
Failure to read the entire article before commenting can lead to embarrassing circumstances...

Is this what you were referring to? (From the source article.)

[Article]

Sen. John Cornyn got his turn earlier. He demanded hearings on the Justice Department’s failures to adequately enforce existing gun laws.

I don't think Tick is far off the mark. Okay, Cornyn read a statement .... Cruz made points.

Cornyn could have got up, put up a poster of a bunch of F&F recoveries by Mexican cops and demanded Alien Larva Holder be subpoenaed RIGHT NOW to explain why he's running political scams down in Mexico (and getting people killed) instead of faithfully executing the laws of the United States. Now that would have made points, instead of just a statement.

In fact, I'd like to see Cruz put a half-Nelson on Larval Alien just as Cornyn comes flying off the top rope. That's the kind of double-team effort the GOP needs to whip on these Grabber Clones.

79 posted on 02/01/2013 12:40:41 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
I take it that's a Kalashnikitty sticker?

Yep, that's her..Handmaiden of the girlie girls..

80 posted on 02/01/2013 1:40:14 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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