It's his constant politicking and his timing...'See, if you elected me i could do it better.' (See the immigration issue) Like Obama, he likes to shadow President Trump. He could have been a contender...Just ask him
Posted on 02/21/2018 8:02:58 PM PST by TBP
Sen. Ted Cruz was asked by a TMZ reporter in Washington, D.C., last week if Hollywood, while touting overwhelming opposition to the Second Amendment, shares blame for gun violence due to its influence in American culture.
And the Republican from Texas shot straight from the hip.
I don’t think this is one too many movies with cowboys and Indians or [Arnold] Schwarzenegger, Quentin Tarantino, or what have you. I don’t think that’s the cause. Evil has always been with us. Now Hollywood does glorify violence, and I’ve got to say I wish we had a little bit less of that. But the truth of the matter is when Hollywood celebrities engage on issues like this, they’re almost inevitably reflecting enormous hypocrisy. Because a lot of these movie stars, they have armed security traveling with them, so they’re perfectly happy to say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. My armed security, he can keep me safe, but don’t let a law-abiding citizen.” The Second Amendment is about a single mom living in a tough neighborhood with a crack house down the street being able to defend herself and defend her kids.
Cruz then brought up Stephen Willeford, who used his own gun to stop the shooter behind the tragic massacre at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in November.
“It was the Second Amendment that saved a lot of lives that day,” Cruz said of Willeford’s actions. “Law enforcement lives and innocent men, women and children. The Second Amendment is about people protecting themselves.”
Cruz then offered a biting commentary on left-wingers from Tinseltown and their affections for the environment.
“Hollywood liberals on gun control is akin to Hollywood liberals on global warming,” Cruz said. “Which is they fly their private jets to a conference, step out and say, ‘Global warming is terrible. Let’s take away everything from the working men and women.’ And then they get back on their private jet and fly back. Same thing on gun control. If you have a bevy of armed security officers protecting you, maybe you shouldn’t be trying to strip Second Amendment rights from law-abiding citizens.”
Wow. The Blaze is really pushing Cruz. No thanks.
A true man of principle, he won’t bend.
Ted Cruz = deep state operative.
What’s wrong with what he SAID?
Cruz thought he was the smartest kid at Harvard law school.
What he didn’t get is how dumb it is to run from the truth.
Good performance for Cruz.
He could still be a great Senator.
The sooner he gives up the idea of being President the better he’ll be.
I assume English isn’t your first language. I observed that the Blaze appears to be pushing Cruz over President Trump. You are asking me to debate Cruz’s opinion. I did not mention his opinion.
Do you need more clues to decipher my statement?
Until they decide to look at the real problems instead of blaming guns thing will never change.
The Dems do not want to correct the real problems of broken homes, no religion, no morals, and all the racial crap that has been created.
So many people are trying to destroy America by various means do we really have a chance to come back to reality?
I saw Black Panther the other night. It was two hours of shooting, knifing, and stabbing. I read later that 373 character were killed in the movie, 163 by gun violence.....with less then 20 dead bodies shown.....I.E. it was mostly impersonal violence without consequence. Whatever...? But, then I read one of the stars of the movie ( he played the bad guy) gave some anti second amendment speech somewhere. That’s when I get my buttons pushed. You’re not allowed to glorify gun violence and then trash what’s going on in America like you’re not contributing to it. Heck, I think music, Hollywood, and video games numb troubled kids to the reality of violence. In fact, they probably have way more of a negative effect than actual guns. I’m just saying, if you make your living shooting and killing people on the silver screen you really should just keep your mouth shut on the issue of gun violence.
This is a contributing factor to the mass killings that we’ve been seeing.
But the left wants to blame guns.
Good response from Senator Cruz, the hypocrites of Hollywood knows no boundaries. He will make a good senator for another 6 years in Texas
All those young heads full of mush know it’s just CGI, right?
I’ll bet a dollar to a donut that a fair number of those same Kids watch Game of Thrones on HBO and wonder what killed off the Dragons.
They probably think it was Globull Warming.
Whcih will run to the end of President Trump’s second term.
“...Cruz thought he was the smartest kid at Harvard...”
Actually, Alan Derschowitz said he was.
We have posters on FR that hate Ted Cruz more than they hate Hillary, Obama or Bernie. A percentage of them are really leftist moles and Russian bots.
Not one thing.
Ted Cruz was absolutely correct in what he said re enormous hypocrisy’ of Hollywood liberals on gun control.
It's his constant politicking and his timing...'See, if you elected me i could do it better.' (See the immigration issue) Like Obama, he likes to shadow President Trump. He could have been a contender...Just ask him
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