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Ted Cruz: Corporate Gun Control Is ‘Social Signaling at the Country Club’
Breitbart ^ | 12 September, 2019 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 09/14/2019 6:30:14 AM PDT by marktwain

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to 145 companies pushing for more gun laws by suggesting corporate gun control is “social signaling at the country club.”

On September 12, Breitbart News reported the GAP, Levi Strauss, Pinterest, Twitter, Yelp, and 140 other companies sent a letter to Congress asking for universal background checks and legislation allowing court orders to seize firearms.

The Hill reports that Cruz responded to the letter while attending a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday. He said, “I don’t think it’s a positive thing to see big corporations shifting their focus from their customers and actually doing what they were created to do into trying to become political players on divisive social issues.”

Cruz observed that the corporate gun control push “is about social signaling at the country club.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cruz2020; guncontrol; secondamendment; tedcruz
Those pushing for more Second Amendment Infringements are proudly ignorant about guns, gun laws, and self defense.
1 posted on 09/14/2019 6:30:14 AM PDT by marktwain
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2 posted on 09/14/2019 6:31:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Those pushing for more Second Amendment Infringements are proudly ignorant about guns, gun laws, and self defense.

And history.

3 posted on 09/14/2019 6:36:00 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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”Those pushing for more Second Amendment Infringements are proudly ignorant about guns, gun laws, and self defense.”

And ignorant about history, human nature, power, the tendencies of governments...

4 posted on 09/14/2019 6:39:49 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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Cruz is right! Predatory fat pig capitalists want to appear sensitive while living lavishly.


5 posted on 09/14/2019 6:55:41 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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I think he meant to say “virtue-signalling.”


6 posted on 09/14/2019 7:17:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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No It’s not. The “elites” want an unarmed populace that can’t resist their true hidden goals... Mass murder and slavery.


7 posted on 09/14/2019 7:18:06 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Those country club wives are no doubt exerting a lot of pressure on their husbands to “do something!”


8 posted on 09/14/2019 7:20:11 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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>>Those pushing for more Second Amendment Infringements are proudly ignorant about guns, gun laws, and self defense.<<

...and Joe-six-packs resolve.


9 posted on 09/14/2019 7:21:49 AM PDT by servantboy777
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There are several sub-divisions within those who wish us disarmed.

There is a very small group of elites who wish us disarmed, who understand history, guns, gun technology, and power.

There is a much larger group of elites who wish us disarmed, who do not understand history, guns, gun technology, and power.

There is a much larger group of voluntarily unarmed people who do not want anyone but the government to be armed. They do not generally understand history, guns, gun technology, and power.

There is the largest group of all; people who have not thought about the issue much, who have been swayed by the relentless propaganda in the media, who think more gun control means more safety. They know almost nothing of history, guns, gun technology, and power relationships.


10 posted on 09/14/2019 7:26:01 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Typical Fascism pattern - cooperation between business and government to suppress the citizens.


11 posted on 09/14/2019 7:59:29 AM PDT by disclaimer
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Cruz observed that the corporate gun control push “is about social signaling at the country club.”
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I think Ted’s language here, descriptions, are spot on!


12 posted on 09/14/2019 8:27:27 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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