Posted on 05/26/2022 6:30:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that Democrats blocked legislation he proposed in 2013 to bolster school security and keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill by keeping it from reaching the 60-vote threshold.
Cruz said, “In 2013, I introduced legislation that would spend $300 million on federal grants to harden schools to make them safer, to make them more protected. The Democrats filibustered that legislation. I’ve introduced legislation to say schools like this elementary school behind me can get federal grants to harden their security, to put in bulletproof doors, bulletproof glass, to put in armed police officers to protect kids.”
He later added, “In 2013, I introduced legislation called Grassley-Cruz, which targeted felons and fugitives and those with serious mental illness. It directed the Department of Justice to do an audit of federal convictions to make sure felons are in the database. It directed the Department of Justice to prosecute and put in jail felons and fugitives who try to illegally buy firearms. That vote in the Harry Reid, Democrat Senate…a majority of the Senate voted in favor of Grassley-Cruz, but the Democrats filibustered it. They demanded 60 votes. They defeated it because they wanted to go after law-abiding citizens instead of stopping the bad guys. We need to stop the bad guys.”
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Like many topics, the Dems don’t want to resolve problem. They want to retain the problem to be used as a brickbat against Pro-2A Republicans.
Bingo!
The NRA should be running ads non-stop referencing this. The NRA is like Waldo. Where are they?
The Democrats can never have a solution for an issue that actually works because if they did, the issue would be lost to them forever.
They create problems and scream about solutions. Their solutions only enhance their own power, but do nothing to solve the real problem.
and the beat goes on and on.
Just think about how far forty billion would go towards this.
Give 40 billion to a corrupt country, OR use 40 billion to protect our kids.
“We must get the US Senate on record”
It appears they are - many of them that blocked this are probably running for re-election this year - use this vote against them. Just like their vote on abortion for a bill that 80% of the public opposes.
I truly believe that Biden will go full retard and try to eliminate Congress. Who needs them if he can rile by EO.
Did Ted vote yes to sending 40 billion to Ukraine?
> The NRA should be running ads non-stop referencing this. The NRA is like Waldo. Where are they?
“Coincidentally”, the NRA is having their party in Houston this weekend.
Some good ideas from Ted but let’s let the individual states implement and pay for them.
I don’t know if he did. I have not looked at that but I don’t suspect that he did.
But the statement was not so much about what Ted has done, but more to the state of our Country and what’s more important to the corrupt elite in charge.
“ Like many topics, the Dems don’t want to resolve problem. They want to retain the problem to be used as a brickbat against Pro-2A Republicans.”
Same with abortion.
Everything DemocRats do is to increase the likelihood and severity of school shootings, so they can have issues to raise money and campaign on. See, Beto in Uvalde. Prove me wrong.
As far as DemocRats are concerned, school children are just larger “clumps of cells” that somehow evaded their abortion mills.
Exactly.
This,also.🙄
btt
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