Good news is that Cruz has consistently defended firearms which you may know are actually specified in the 2nd amendment.
Absent such specification, states have a right to regulate under the 10th amendment
Your argument involved ‘public health’.
The big issue here is use of public funds.
Was this the MOST important thing going on in TX at this time?
Really?
Not the drug gangs, drug sales, terrorism, or more importantly OVER extension of federal authority? Nope? None of those? Nope! Sex toys. THOSE are public enemy number one.
And the argument didn’t involve ‘we can because we’re a state’. The argument was ‘because they’ll enable incest’ or some such twaddle.
Sounds like the holy rollers who wanted to control the sales of tampons.