Posted on 11/07/2017 6:27:40 AM PST by Jewbacca
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized Democrats for filibustering the Grassley-Cruz legislation in 2013 that “would have resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church.” Cruz said, “[T]his should have been stopped beforehand. Under federal law, it was illegal for this individual to purchase a firearm. He had a conviction for a crime that’s punishable by more than a year in prison, and he had a conviction for multiple domestic violence crimes. Both of those, it’s already ineligible. But, several things happened: Number one, the air force — the Obama administration didn’t report those convictions to the [NICS] database. That’s an endemic problem. It’s a problem with the federal government. It’s a problem with the states. And so, when he went in to buy the guns, they ran the background check, and they didn’t find it because it wasn’t in the database. But I’ll tell you we could have prevented this. In 2013, in the wake of Sandy Hook, I joined with Chuck Grassley, we introduced legislation that was called the Grassley-Cruz legislation. And it was aggressive legislation targeting felons and violent criminals to stop them from getting guns.” He continued, “There were a couple elements of that legislation that were critical: One, it mandated that federal agencies, including the Air Force, report to the [NICS] because that was a problem back then. But, two, and this is an even more critical piece, if it had been reported to the background database, when he went into Academy to buy this — these weapons, he lied on the forms. That is a felony to lie on those forms. The Obama administration didn’t prosecute those cases.
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Once again, the Democrats were against a measure that actually would have saved lives.
Be reasonable, we can't put the entire democrat party in jail, now can we, can we???
They filibustered the law because it would disproportionately affect minorities.................
We can build more jails.
I hear there's room available at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh.
;-)
“We need crazy, evil-person, control. Not gun control.”
Thanks for posting this.
Just amazing. Despite what he did at the convention, Ted Cruz is a very strong voice for our side. Next, he needs to be sitting next to Gorsuch.
“We need crazy, evil-person, control. Not gun control.
Once again, the Democrats were against a measure that actually would have saved lives.”.........
The demodummies are the people that need controlling, YES, “the crazy, evil people” mentioned above.
“Be reasonable, we can’t put the entire democrat party in jail, now can we, can we??? “........
Perhaps not ALL of them but 99.9 % would be a good start.
All criminal statutes do, of course.
Clearly the fault of the law.
I forgive him for that.
Trump was over-the-top with the your-dad-killed-JFK crap. I’d be pissed, too.
(And, yes, I voted for Trump.)
btt
No worries.
Aside from a law that needs to be passed, it shows the Democrats aren’t really interested in solutions, just excuses for weapon confiscation.
How do we get the certifiable mentally ill persons off the streets? That is the question that needs to be addressed.
Well, you’d have to start with replacing about 4 SCOTUS justices.
And this guy wasn’t crazy. He was just an evil putz.
The telling thing for me was an interview with a friend in HS that said the shooter got mad and beat him up for no reason years ago.
That, and the animal cruelty, were actually bigger red flags for me that you have a long-term problem that the much more serious crimes of child abuse.
Being a evil putz, however, is not grounds for putting someone away.
Me too. Trump over the top and I voted for Trump.
The last thing Democrat leftist/ Marxists want to do is stop gun violence. In fact, it has become clear that they want to encourage gun violence at every opportunity. Why? Because it helps them to accomplish their real goal: to take our guns away. Then they will be free to exert oppressive, complete control over the citizens . . . just as Stalin did, just as Hitler did, and just as other totalitarians in the history books have done. We must defeat their evil.
At its very worst, gun violence involves numbers in the tens in single occurrences. Most of those were preventable if people with information had raised their hands, and most would have been worse had there not been armed private citizens nearby. But if you want to see real carnage and violence, just let the politicians take away our right to bear arms. Subsequent history has proven our Founding Fathers 100% correct with the 2nd Amendment.
Strange, is it not?...............
“Once again, the Democrats were against a measure that actually would have saved lives. “
They were against the measure knowing full well that this would probably happen and they could use it for their gun control argument.
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