January 30, 2013 - 1:10 pm
During today’s Senate hearing on gun control, freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spent a few minutes shredding the effectiveness and purpose of the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Sen. Dianne Feinstein has proposed.
If Sen. Cruz keeps on dominating and out-thinking the Democrats as he has over the past few weeks, we’ll have to come up with a list of Ted Cruz Facts.
Ahem.
Ted Cruz is like the honey badger of the Senate right now. And I love it.
— Laura Elizabeth (@lauraelizabethm) January 29, 2013
Did that Police Chief just make the argument that gun deaths are lower in Houston and Austin Texas because…. they have better hospitals? Because they have better surgeons? Is he saying that more people die in Washington D.C., Chicago and Baltimore because they don’t have good, and maybe not enough, hospitals, good trauma centers, good doctors and surgeons? Did he really just say that?
And if, as he claims, the guns are coming into Baltimore from outside, presumably places that have fewer or easier gun control laws, I’d be curious to hear, of those hundreds of murders that took place in Baltimore last year, how many of those murderers had a legal right to possess or carry that firearm? Obviously Baltimore didn’t sell the guns to those criminals, so did those criminals come into my state, Virginia, or into other nearby states such as West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey or another city in Maryland so they could LEGALLY acquire those guns? Did they get a license for the gun here in Virginia before taking it back to Baltimore? If the Baltimore police aren’t asking such questions, if they are not keeping track of such things, perhaps they should start.
I’m willing to bet that those criminals did not come into Virginia, apply for a license, have the required background check and then return to Baltimore to commit their crimes. I’d guess these criminals, you know, people who break laws, probably STOLE most of those guns or bought them off the black market. I’m willing to bet, in most of Baltimore’s gun murders, that criminal back ground checks would have done very little good no matter where that criminal acquired that gun.
Yeah, something like that. And Baltimore only has Johns Freaking Hopkins Hospital.
Yeah…this is one more argument why folks ought to come on down here to Texas: Lower taxes, cheaper housing, more jobs and better quality medical care. This guy is an “expert” after all!
Dumbest expert ever.
He didn’t even enter the hemisphere of Sen Cruz’s question! Why can’t these educated people just say ” no I can’t”. I say it every day of my life, or better yet, keep their mouth closed and only thought a fool!
We’re lucky this guy has six years. At the moment, he appears to be one of the very few who hasn’t sold out.
If you want to be optimistic for a moment, think about this. The Fraud was annointed Senator in 2004 and King in 2008. Ted Cruz had more experience when he was 13 than the Fraud had when he became President, and there are about three times as many Hispanics as blacks.
Did he just say Medical care is the reason the crime rate in’t higher in Houston?
As expected, the chief plays the victim card. That is a standard tactic of the incompetent. Oh, we don’t have the same level of medical care so more our our people die. Oh, its the outside guns that are coming into the city and causing these murders. OTOH, I’m glad to see Cruz get some mileage out of these show hearings.
Who knew? (OK, I didn’t know):
“In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.[17] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Cruz is especially effective because of his courtroom and debate team experience. Unlike the most of the lame senators and congressmen in the Benghazi hearings, Cruz here used the time he had effectively. No rambling. Straight to the point. No waxing philosophical. When LaPierre went on too long Cruz cut him off quickly and got back on message.
He needs to teach classes in this to the rest of the GOP.
Chief Johnson didn’t dispute that deaths were rising. He just asserted that the Big Numbers of deaths would be even Bigger without police work. And he certainly didn’t answer Senator Cruz’s question directly, but went straight to his prepackaged talking points. A well-coached witness for the other side.