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Posted on 06/22/2015 1:31:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
(Johnston, IA) U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told the media at a stop in Johnston, IA on Saturday that there is a difference between the shooting at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC and protecting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
Dylann Roof, age 21, shot and killed nine people at the historic black church during their prayer meeting on Wednesday. Among the victims was State Senator Clementa Pickney (D-Charleston) who served as the church’s pastor.
Gun control advocates, including President Barack Obama, have taken the opportunity to call for more gun control in response to the mass murder.
“We should all come together and denounce the tragic shooting that occurred at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston. We should pray for the families who lost loved ones. Look, I have to say as a Christian that the idea someone could come and sit down and pray for an hour in a church and then murder the people he was praying with – it is horrifying. It is the face of evil, and we should be looking at this as an opportunity to bring people together and to pray for the families,” Cruz said.
“One of the incredible things yesterday (Friday) was to see the families of those who were murdered calling for forgiveness of the murderer. What a powerful demonstration of Christian love. I have to admit if it were my family I don’t know if I could demonstrate that degree of forgiveness, and it is a shame that there is some in politics who want to use this tragedy to divide us. I think that is wrong,” Cruz added. “I also think there is a qualitative between that and protecting the bill of rights, protecting the constitutional right to keep and bear arms of law abiding citizens which is altogether different and unconnected by a horrific murder committed by a sick and deranged individual.”
Cruz also stated that Dylann Roof was deserving of the death penalty.
Watch his press avail here or below:
Cruz stopped in Johnstone for a reelection campaign fundraiser for State Representative Ralph Watts (R-Adel) at CrossRoads Shooting Sports. Watts is the state co-chair for Cruz’ presidential campaign in Iowa.
Cruz took a tour of the facility that houses two indoor firing ranges, a simulator room, class rooms and a gun store and pro shop. He focused on the need to protect religious liberty and gun rights during his remarks before a group of approximately 6o people.
Watch Cruz remarks here or below:
Congressman David Young (R-Iowa) was also present at the event and spoke before Cruz. (Watch here or below)
Cruz also took two questions from the audience who were frustrated about the Republican leadership in Congress. (Watch here or below)
Before Cruz left the event he took the opportunity to fire 15 rounds from a Smith & Wesson MMP 15 (that uses .223 caliber rounds). (Watch here or below)
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Ted Cruz Ping! When your father has nipple rings...
sigh
Cruz playing to the plebs in the cheap seats.
Backs kill Whites every day of the week, and no one says a word.
Blacks also kill Blacks every day of the week, and no one says a word.
This crime by this 21-year-old kid was horrific, and it was racially motivated. There's nothing wrong with calling the incident what it was: a mass-murder based on racism.
That is news. One reason why it's news is exactly because such incidents are quite rare.
Stuff that happens everyday and is commonplace, typically doesn't make the news. That's just the nature of the beast.
Everybody knows that there's no "epidemic" of racism-inspired crime.
Having said that, I agree that the epidemic of crime committed by young black men is something that needs to be discussed, addressed, and appear more prominently in the news. Its core causes need to be faced. Specifically, the utter obliteration of the traditional family unit in black culture. Sooner or later, this issue will have to be faced, including by the media.
But the fact is that crimes like the one in Charleston are sensational, and such things will always dominate the news. I don't see that as anything unusual, and hopefully this incident will serve to make such crimes even more rare in the future.
No one goes into a Prayer Meeting, and joins with the people praying for one hour, and then kills them. Ted Cruz was right to the extent that this was unfathomable and evil. I have no doubt that Satan motivated the drug-addled, mentally disturbed, youth to commit this crime. I pray along with the families who lost loved ones that this young man repents, but it is also clear that he's earned his death penalty and I hope the process is quick.
Thw Psychiatric Drugs would fall under the general heading “ pharmakeia”
“the Greek word pharmakeia is found only a few places (Galatians 5:20; Revelation 9:21; 18:23) in the New Testament. Nevertheless, it refers to the use of drugs in the context of witchcraft, which is clearly condemned.”
thee evil punks who engage in these very bizarre shooting behaviors..are clearly demon inspired ..if not possessed.
Daily Digest Ted Cruz Ping! Agreed, also influenced not just by the drugs, but this culture’s music, daily images on TV shows of murder, and the media as a whole war on Christians.
If there is anything that inspired this guy is the hatred by the media against Christians.
This was not so much a hate crime of race, but of innocent Christians demonically inspired by the drugs and media that hates Christians.
This guy was inspired by ISIS and the MSM.
THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL IS THE MEDIA.
Here we go again...
I think that sums it up nicely.
Amen, brother...I’ll drink to that but these daze, I’ll drink to anything.
2013 FBI Murder Statistics:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
White-on-Black: 189
Black-on-White: 409
Black-on-Black: 2,245
White-on-White: 2,509
A very vile combo of Drugs and Hatred, and perhaps some “outside” instigation...aka EGGING ON.
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