Posted on 06/24/2015 8:28:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ah yes, the media and gun control.
Senator Cruz joined PBS host Tavis Smiley Tuesday. Smiley seized the opportunity to peg Sen. Cruz on gun control.
“To me and to others who’ve seen this, it seemed in bad taste, but maybe that’s my assessment,” Smiley said. “We all know what happened in Charleston the other day, and you were on the campaign trail after this happened, here’s what you said on the campaign trail.”
Smiley then showed Sen. Cruz a clip bearing a HuffPo watermark, dated June 19 when Cruz was addressing a crowd in Iowa. “We need a second amendment, the right to keep and bear arms. You know the great thing about the state of Iowa, I’m pretty sure y’all define ‘gun control’ the same way we do in Texas — hittin’ what you aim at,” Cruz explained as the audience chuckled.
“Gun control is hitting what you aim at. Those comments were made after this tragedy the other day in South Carolina the other day, was that in bad taste?” Smiley asked.
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“One of the problems we see in politics is when there’s a tragedy, this should be an opportunity to bring us together,” explained Cruz.
Not content to let the issue pass, Smiley pressed again, “and many of those same people [the people in Charleston] would love to see us get guns off the streets and yet, gun control, for your definition, is hittin’ whatcha aim at.”
“If you look at how you stop crime… you target the bad guys, you target the violent criminals. I think when it comes to violent criminals we should come down on them like a ton of bricks, but I also think we should protect the Constitutional rights of law abiding citizens and I think those are altogether separate.”
And then Sen. Cruz flipped the issue back on Smiley. “You know, it’s easy by the way, for people with a whole lot of money to support gun control. Cause you can live in fancy neighborhoods, you can pay taxes and have the police protect you. But if you’re a single mom living in Anacostia [a notoriously dangerous suburb of Washington D.C.], if you’re taking the subway late at night, if you’ve got tragically a crack house down the street and you’re thinking about protecting your kids, second amendment rights are something real and personal about the right to keep your family safe.”
poor tavis, brought a butter knife to a chainsaw fight.......again. You go big Ted.
I wish he would have thrown in that Obama went fundraising and golfing
Tavis is a useful idiot....he only has a “show” because he is another puppet-slave, like the guy in the white house. These idiots will be some of the first people the Marxist NWO kill, when they facilitate the total takeover of America. They are just total butt-boys like Bergdahl.
Ted is brilliant, but the press is extremely powerful...and they are trying to bring him down.
According to Sheriff Clarke, mass shooting events have MUCH higher casualty rates when police are the ones who stop the shooter (Around 18 killed or wounded while waiting for police) compared to mass shooters who are confronted on scene my an armed citizen (Around 2 killed or wounded before the shooter is taken down)
They're afraid of him, and they get their marching orders from the White House. He gets points for that by my accounting.
Sad to say, the GOPe is as big an offender as the White House.
tavis smiley is the living embodiment of affirmative action!
cruz versus affirmative action tavis is no contest!
Great poster, great analogy.
Yes, great line for the gun-grabbers.
bkmk
Cruz flipped the issue back on Smiley....
“You know, it’s easy by the way, for people with a whole lot of money to support gun control. Cause you can live in fancy neighborhoods, you can pay taxes and have the police protect you. But if you’re a single mom living in Anacostia [a notoriously dangerous suburb of Washington D.C.], if you’re taking the subway late at night, if you’ve got tragically a crack house down the street and you’re thinking about protecting your kids, second amendment rights are something real and personal about the right to keep your family safe.”
Cruz has a distinct ability to discern when pundits are attempting to discredit him and then turns it around to the address the people and their Constitutional Rights.
Ted Cruz Ping! Pinging to save! Great analogy!
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