Cruz calls gun control an 'abysmal failure' at Iowa shooting range

The Hill ^ | December 4, 2015 | Lisa Hagen

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday vowed to protect the gun rights of Americans as he made a campaign stop at an Iowa shooting range.

"It's these constitutional rights that keep us safe," Cruz said. "You don't stop bad guys by taking away our guns. You stop bad guys by using our guns."

"When I'm elected president," Cruz began to say to laughter and clapping, labeling it as a "Freudian slip," "we will change the policy so that we will allow every service man and woman to keep and bear arms to protect themselves."

The Republican presidential candidate used the event at a Johnston, Iowa, shooting range to launch his campaign’s national Second Amendment Coalition. It boasts more than 24,000 members so far.

"That scares the living daylights out of a whole lot of folks," Cruz said of the membership number, specifically referring to his rival GOP candidates.

The rollout of the coalition comes two days after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that left 14 dead and more than 20 wounded, and on the same day the FBI confirmed it is investigating the shooting as an "act of terrorism."

Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said earlier on Friday that the visit to the gun range was scheduled before the shooting.

When discussing the California attack, Cruz knocked the state's gun laws, which are some of the strictest in the country, and generally criticized gun control measures as an "abysmal failure."

"Within seconds it seems, the Democrats, within seconds the media... immediately began saying the answer is we need to go after and strip away the rights of the Second Amendment," Cruz said. "That's always their solution."

Cruz also took a few jabs at political correctness and the controversy surrounding the use of the term "illegal immigrants," joking that the correct term is "undocumented Democrats."

Cruz has recently been climbing in the polls both nationally and in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. He sits in third place with 13.5 percent in national polls and also in third with 18.3 percent in Iowa GOP polls, according to RealClearPolitics averages.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ted Cruz has a track record to prove his commitment to defending the Constitution.

Texas Solicitor General

Appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Cruz served in that position from 2003 to 2008. The office had been established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the state, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict construction [limit or restrict judicial interpretation]." As Solicitor General, Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four.

Cruz has authored 70 United States Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court. Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress. Cruz has commented on his nine cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."

In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas' sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, where the U.S. Supreme Court decided that state laws banning homosexual sex as illegal sodomy were unconstitutional.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states, which said that the D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.

In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow [Re: words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance], in which he wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to file suit on behalf of his daughter. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.

Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5-4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention. Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them...."

[Yosemitest]

“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
King George III


The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidized, but are subject to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/262188-cruz-swats-back-at-rubio-in-surveillance-fight

Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign hit back at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Friday, in an escalating fight over the nation”s intelligence powers.

Cruz’s team is demanding that Rubio retract criticisms he made in an appearance earlier on CBS “This Morning” against Cruz for supporting surveillance reform this summer.

Cruz’s camp is refuting Rubio’s claim that the reforms would bar the National Security Agency (NSA) from gathering phone records about people “who carry out an attack to see who they were coordinating or talking to.”

The reforms, which went into effect last weekend, prevent the spy agency from sweeping up millions of Americans’ phone records in bulk. However, the NSA is able to gather records about targets of a terror investigation from private phone companies, so long as the agency obtains a court order first.

The records contain metadata that include the numbers involved in a phone call, when the call occurred and how long it lasted. They do not contain information about what was discussed.

Legislation reforming the NSA, called the USA Freedom Act, “preserves America’s ability to track down, kill or prosecute America’s enemies, particularly those who have carried out attacks,” Cruz’s national campaign chairman and former CIA officer Chad Sweet said in a statement. “In fact, it strengthens our hand in fighting terrorism by giving our intelligence services access to more information, ending the blind spot when persons who are being monitored enter the country, and increasing penalties for providing material support to terrorists.

“And it does all this without warrantless collection of the phone records of millions of law abiding Americans.”

Rubio’s comment “is beyond the pale,” he added, “and Rubio should correct the record immediately, instead of attempting to instill a false fear among Americans.”

The rebuke is the Cruz’s campaign strongest counterstrike yet against Rubio, who has repeatedly hammered the Texas Republican over his support for NSA reform this summer.

On Friday, Rubio indicated that Cruz and fellow presidential opponent Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tried to undermine the nation’s “robust intelligence gathering capabilities” by pushing to reform the NSA seven months ago.

Cruz’s position has largely been seen as a weakness, amid a new focus on terrorism in the GOP presidential debate. The issuse is taking center stage amid the growing reach of the Islamic State and Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Yet Friday’s pushback is evidence that his campaign intends to dig in.

The two candidates are neck and neck in recent polls, and appear to be rising towards the top as former neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s support steadily erodes. Still, national polling puts them both significantly behind billionaire Donald Trump, who has maintained a steady lead in the race for months.

[cripplecreek]

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention. Texas won the case in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them

One of the single most important cases of our lifetime and few people even know about it. My state attorney General and others are using it to impose sanctions on Iran outside of federal control.

(MI) Schuette Calls on All States to Impose Sanctions on Iran

[Cincinatus' Wife]

bttt!

[t4texas]

In Texas, gun control refers to how steady you hold your weapon.

[basil]

As a Texan, I’m very proud of Senator Cruz’s accomplishments.

Someone please tell me what the other candidates have done that measure up to Sen. Cruz.

[cripplecreek]

Someone please tell me what the other candidates have done that measure up to Sen. Cruz.

Big crowds are apparently good enough for some. I gave up that kind of non thinking with middle school.

Ted Cruz is the ONLY true constitutional conservative in the race, the rest are just varying degrees of progressive.

[NonValueAdded]

A demographic phrase I have not seen for a long time is “Security Moms” but I know they are out there and I'm sure Trump / Cruz is at the top of their list.

[PoloSec]

Cruz may have said it before but this is the first time I heard him say “WHEN I am elected president” although he did label it as a Freudian Slip, I think he is waiting to win the primary before saying WHEN (as it seems they all do) but he may be indicating a willingness to breaking that tradition if indeed it is one.

[erod]

[caww]

Cruz.....“We are dealing with an enemy that has shown it is not only capable of bypassing U.S. screening, but of recruiting and radicalizing Muslim migrants after their entry to the United States,”..... as is written..." “The recruitment of terrorists in the u.s. is not limited to adult migrants, but to their young children and to their u.s.- born children – which is why family immigration history is necessary to understand the nature of the threat.”

[MeshugeMikey]

Ted’s the Timber..that the next Presidency will be built with.

[FourPeas]

[FourPeas]

"When I'm elected president,"

I've been waiting to hear that. :)

[erod]

Let’s hope so.

[MeshugeMikey]

I’ve got an uncanny sense about this.

Ted’s the man