Ted Cruz Denounced For Offering ‘Prayer’ After Texas School Massacre
Sen. Ted Cruz’s supply Tuesday to fervently pray for the victims of one more horrific mass capturing in his state of Texas was not effectively acquired.
The Republican lawmaker, who’s among the top recipients of campaign contributions from gun lobbyists, stated Tuesday that he and his spouse had been “fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde” after no less than 19 kids and two adults had been killed by a lone gunman at Robb Elementary School.
No matter what number of mass shootings afflict the nation, Cruz has lengthy opposed efforts to enact gun management measures. Even after Tuesday’s bloodbath, he advised reporters he didn’t consider gun regulation reforms had been the answer and known as it an effort to “restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.”
It’s the same playbook he makes use of after most mass shootings. Last year, after a number of individuals had been killed in Boulder, Colorado, and in Atlanta, Georgia, Cruz accused Democrats of “ridiculous theater” as a result of they known as for gun management measures, akin to common background checks, as a response.
The House has handed laws that may mandate common background checks for gun purchases, a measure that polling reveals 90% of Americans assist. The invoice has stalled due to Republican resistance within the Senate.
On Tuesday, prayers apart, Cruz proposed including extra armed regulation enforcement officers to highschool campuses.
Texas is one of the nation’s top three states with essentially the most mass shootings over the previous 20 years.
Instead of tightening gun legal guidelines, the state has relaxed them lately. It has among the loosest laws within the nation.
Cruz is slated to talk at a National Rifle Association convention in Houston on Friday, together with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, former President Donald Trump and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).
In the 2018 election cycle, Cruz acquired greater than $300,000 from gun rights supporters, making him the highest recipient in Congress in that interval, according to Open Secrets.
His response Tuesday was broadly condemned, together with by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who famous his upcoming talking gig.
“You can do more than pray. Faith without works is dead,” she tweeted.
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