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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday pushed back against claims that it was insensitive for him to hold a Second Amendment campaign event just days after a mass shooting under investigation as an act of terrorism. "I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists," the Republican presidential candidates said at a gun range in Johnston, Iowa, where he rolled out his Second Amendment Coalition, a group of gun rights advocates backing his GOP presidential bid. "Liberal Democrats think it is insensitive to celebrate our constitutional rights in the wake of a terrorist attack," Cruz later told supporters. "It...

GOP presidential hopeful tells Jewish activists Wednesday attack, in which 14 killed, underscores 'we are at a time of war' WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz opened a meeting of Jewish activists on Thursday with a moment of silence for the California shooting victims and said he was worried that the attack was an act of “Islamic terrorism.” “All of us are deeply concerned that this is yet another manifestation of terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism here at home,” the Texas senator told the meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Investigators have not yet identified a specific motive for...

2016 GOP candidate Ted Cruz speaks Thursday in Washington, D.C., at the Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Forum. Watch the video at the link.