Posted on 04/20/2015 6:39:21 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) is mocking Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for claiming he is “pressing” for hearings on allowing U.S. troops to carry private firearms on military installations.
“You know, I was fascinated to hear that because I haven’t heard a thing about it from him. Nor has my staff heard from his staff. Where did that come from? I have not a clue,” McCain told reporters on Monday. “I’d be glad to discuss the issue and see if we need a hearing, but it came as a complete surprise to me that he had been pressing me."
“Maybe it was through some medium that I’m not familiar with. Maybe bouncing it off the ozone layer, for all I know,” McCain joked. “There’s a lot of holes in the ozone layer, so maybe it wasn’t the ozone layer that he bounced it off of. Maybe it was through hand telegraph, maybe sign language, who knows?”
Cruz, a member of the Armed Services panel and a 2016 presidential candidate, made the comment on Sunday while speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, according to Politico.
“I am very concerned about that policy,” Cruz said. “I think it’s very important to have a public discussion about why we’re denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
In recent years, GOP lawmakers, including fellow Texan Rep. Louie Gohmert, have pushed for the Defense Department to ease its ban on private firearms, citing mass shootings, such as the two that have occurred at Fort Hood. They contend such tragedies could have been avoided had soldiers been allowed to be armed.
Last week Gohmert urged the House Armed Services Committee to include a provision in its version of the annual defense policy bill to lift the ban.
A laughing McCain, who earlier on Monday chided Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), another Republican presidential contender, over his understanding of foreign policy, said reporters should follow up with Cruz on how he sought hearings on the controversial issue.
“Ask him how he communicated with me because I’d be very interested. Who knows what I’m missing?” he said.
McLame is a horses rear end. The best Democrat they ever had.
Unarmed soldiers were killed on a military Base in Fort Hood in 2009. Armed soldiers would not have fallen to that cowardly jihadist trash that shot them, in fact I doubt hasan would haven even tried if soldiers were armed.
Couldn’t agree more, now if we could just convince the people in AZ to QUIT electing him...
It was indeed a misleading paraphrase in the Politico that got this rolling:
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