The blood on Ted Cruz’s hands from yesterday’s elementary school shooting in Texas is apparently not going to be enough to keep him from giving the NRA a resounding round of applause at their convention on Friday.
Cruz has received over $175,000 dollars in donations from the NRA over the course of his political career. Under Cruz’s senatorship, Texas has become the state with the highest number of gun deaths in the country, according to the CDC’s firearm mortality stats. In the face of it all, the anti-LGBTQ seantor refuses to recognize the lethal implications of his massive gun lobby support.
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Now, even after this week’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead, Cruz and his fellow gun enthusiasts Greg Abbott and Donald Trump are still set to speak at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend.
This convention not only celebrates gun ownership and open legislation, but it will also be a marketplace for weapons and ammunition, which is especially concerning for a state that no longer requires licenses or training for some gun owners.
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According to Education Week, there have so far been 27 school shootings in the U.S. in 2022. Last year, there were 34 school shootings. 2020 saw 10 school shootings. And both 2019 and 2018 recorded 24 school shootings.
The callous and brazen decision by Cruz and others to carry on with a gun rally in the same state that over a dozen children were just gunned down in has left many people on Twitter beside themselves with anger.
Here’s what they’re saying…
Aren’t you slated to headline a speaking gig for the NRA in three days – in Houston, no less?
You can do more than pray. Faith without works is dead. https://t.co/NMX64KljhL
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2022
Parents are staring at empty beds tonight while @tedcruz and @GovAbbott are practicing speeches for the NRA.
There isn’t a word in the english dictionary to describe how angry that makes me.
— Emma Silverman (@EmmaSilverman1) May 25, 2022
The NRA conference is THIS Friday. In Houston, Texas. Nice timing, a**holes. Speakers include Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, who boasts an A+ rating from the same NRA. Are they worried? No. The conference area is a “no gun” zone. They’re brazen, greedy, and shameless, not stupid.
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) May 25, 2022
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Governor Abbott are speaking Friday at the NRA annual meeting on Friday in Houston. DAMN THEY CANT EVEN FUCKING WAIT UNTIL THE BLOOD OF THE CHILDREN IS WASHED AWAY. THE INDECENCY!
— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) May 25, 2022
Does the NRA give Republicans a bonus with each mass shooting, or is it an annual flat fee? How does that work @tedcruz @MittRomney @LeaderMcConnell?
— Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) May 25, 2022
You’re a waste of space. Families don’t need your hollow prayers. They need gun control.
But you need campaign money from the NRA, so you’ll do nothing but give a useless tweet and then flee to Cancun.
— Matt Verderame (@MattVerderame) May 24, 2022
19 children & 2 teachers were gunned down today in Texas & 72 hours later Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz & John Cornyn will be featured speakers at an NRA convention in Houston. Then 50 GOP senators will make sure absolutely nothing is done to address this sickness. This is disgusting.
— Dustmeister626 (@DelightfulDrD) May 25, 2022
The NRA paid good money for Ted Cruz to have no spine.
— 💀FedUpViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) May 25, 2022
Stop the slaughter. Do something and act like you care about children dying for your debt to weapons makers.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) May 24, 2022
Among the countless voices vehemently objecting to Cruz’s involvement with the firearm death cult, Arizona Congressman Rubén Gallego was especially succinct:
Just to be clear fuck you @tedcruz you fucking baby killer.
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 24, 2022
CNY1983
YICK. texas? no thanks.
scotty
ted cooze earns his reputation points without even trying. he is a disgusting scam of a human being. adios ted.
Harold Up North
$175,000 from the NRA doesn’t seem like a lot of money. At first I thought it must be per year but re-reading, it says Cruz has received that amount over the course of his career. Not really very much per body shot down during that career.
Shame on him and anyone else who takes money from the NRA.
Mack
I think they’re running out of money because Russia isn’t giving them as much as they used to.
Paulie P
he has received well over 400 thousand dollars. 175K is incorrect.
Jaquelope
The conference is having gun sales on site, in a no-guns zone? How does that work?
MISTERJETT
you should do whatever it takes to protect our children. WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!. there is a place in hell for those republican lawmakers(ted cruz, gov. abbott, etc) who refuse to do anything. there is a place in hell and i hope they go there soon. they love their assault rifles? well i hope their guns go off in their faces.
GaysForTrump
Misterjett:
Obama had super majority in congress and could have passed gun control laws after Sandy Hook without GOP being able to stop it, but didn’t.
Obama literally refused to anything, or make any changes.
So by your standards, he has a place in hell?
GaysForTrump
There was assault weapons ban on the Senate floor in 2013, and it received only 40 votes, with several swing state Democrats who are still in the Senate—Colorado’s Michael Bennet, New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich, Maine’s Angus King (a nominal independent), Montana’s Jon Tester and Virginia’s Mark Warner—voting against it.
GaysForTrump
In his first term, Obama did not push for gun control measures after the fatal mass shootings at Fort Hood, Texas; an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater; and the Tucson, Arizona supermarket that cut short Rep. Gabby Giffords’ congressional career. He continued to keep quiet on gun control in the 2012 presidential campaign as well.
So please spare us the GOP rhetoric. What did Obama do? Let’s hear those facts.
martyvl
GaysForTrump……
Most of us live in the present, you appear to be firmly barnacled in the past….. or up Trump’s ass.
tRUMP lost sweetie, perhaps get over it and try really hard to move on? Either way, I think the middle finger was invented just for you.
Kangol2
Of course GaysforPutin is yet again misstating the truth. Why would you outright lie and say he “refused to [sic] anything, or make any changes?” Why don’t others just cite facts to challenge his/their Trumpian BS?
Barack Obama repeatedly pushed for gun control:
-in 2007 while he was a US Senator, before he was elected President,
-in 2011 after Gabby Giffords was shot,
-in 2012 after the Aurora shootings,
-in 2012 after the shooting at the Sikh temple,
-in 2012 after the Sandy Hook shooting,
-in 2012 when he tasked Biden to come up with solutions,
-in 2013 when he signed an executive order on gun control,
-in 2013 during his State of the Union address,
-in 2013 when he spoke at the Denver Police Academy,
-in 2013 when he toured the country before a Congressional vote on gun control,
-in 2013 when he spoke out for gun control on the White House lawn,
-in 2013 after the shooting at the Navy Yard,
-in 2014 after the shooting at Fort Hood,
-in 2014 during a Tumblr forum,
-in 2015 after the racist massacre in Charleston, SC,
-in 2015 after the Uppaqua shooting in Oregon, and
-in 2016 after the anti-gay Pulse massacre in Orlando!
GaysForTrump
Obama had super majority in congress and could have passed gun control laws after Sandy Hook without GOP being able to stop it, but didn’t.
Biden was in a position of power (VP) the last time a tragedy like this happened.
What did they Obama and Joe do seeing GOP wasn’t in a position to prevent effective gun laws/legislation?
GaysForTrump
Many Democrats had been uncomfortable with gun control since the moment President Bill Clinton enacted the assault weapons ban in 1994, over the private opposition of the House Democratic leadership.
Jami Stardust
Some were DINO. And you are aware that it’s Congresses job not the President’s to pass laws. They’re separate for a reason. so don’t equate it to the president.
Fname Optional Lname
LOL “Obama” “Hilary” “THE EMAILS!”
Obama will always be remembered fondly. Trump will always be remembered with disgust and embarrassment
MikeM
From 2009 until 2010, when Scott Brown won the senate race to finish out Ted Kennedy’s term. He passed the aca in that time and was called a communist for that alone.
Kangol2
Barack Obama repeatedly pushed for gun control:
-in 2007 while he was a US Senator, before he was elected President,
-in 2011 after Gabby Giffords was shot,
-in 2012 after the Aurora shootings,
-in 2012 after the shooting at the Sikh temple,
-in 2012 after the Sandy Hook shooting,
-in 2012 when he tasked Biden to come up with solutions,
-in 2013 when he signed an executive order on gun control,
-in 2013 during his State of the Union address,
-in 2013 when he spoke at the Denver Police Academy,
-in 2013 when he toured the country before a Congressional vote on gun control,
-in 2013 when he spoke out for gun control on the White House lawn,
-in 2013 after the shooting at the Navy Yard,
-in 2014 after the shooting at Fort Hood,
-in 2014 during a Tumblr forum,
-in 2015 after the racist massacre in Charleston, SC,
-in 2015 after the Uppaqua shooting in Oregon, and
-in 2016 after the anti-gay Pulse massacre in Orlando!
Toofie
Thanks Kangol for pointing the truth out!
Polaro
Ted really is vile.
LeBlevsez
GaysForTrump –
I’m not posting as a ‘reply’ to one of your posts since you’ve deemed it necessary to spew all over this thread, and to follow the spew with litter. You’re making a mess. And so…
Obama never had a supermajority. A supermajority in both the Senate and the House is two-thirds, per Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution. Look it up.
Your argument seems to be “Obama and Democrats Bad”. While a few Democrats own some of the responsibility for these repeated massacres, the Republicans, en masse, have foisted this granite monument of a nightmare on us all.
This latest massacre has shaken you, judging by your self-contradictions and inability to complete a cogent argument. Keep quaking. Maybe it will spur you to reconsider some of your beliefs. Then quake some more, because some of your conservative compatriots are already reconsidering theirs.
CNY1983
thank you for not responding to don junior. his girlfriend/fiance/beard kim is disgusted by him and so he has a lot of free time, “free” as in before federal prison.
i think this is the last “wolf” republicans can hack up before they go down in the midterms. they just cried wolf too many times, and the asses on the stools at FAKE NEWS finally get it: without hate theyre nothing.
who’s gonna tune in and swallow that fox bullshit when america finds out from the 1/6 committe what pond scum the trumps were and are. tick. tick. tick.
Kangol2
GaysforPutin just spewed nonsense. Also, as you point out, they have no clue what a “supermajority” is. That does not negate the reality that there are some Democrats who are beholden to the NRA but GaysforDontheCon just outright misstakes the record, including when he/they say he “refused to [sic] anything, or make any changes.” This is flat out untrue, but so typical for GQP rhetoric.
Mack
It’s a sad state of affairs when the NRA Convention has more gun controls than your local schools.
cuteguy
Shame on Texas for electing and re electing this murd€rer from Canada.
johncp56
Scummy sticky creep, you all know he and the ass hat GOV of Texas, are going to the NRA conference this week, how scummy will we put up with,, 20 little kids!!! an 18 year old got two killer rifles and way too much amoe? congrees can be bought and we should alll see who takes from who?$$$ March all your kids into congress and let them lie down show them whos next when where, it is going to happen again and again,,, my heart is broken for all you parents,
Prax07
$175k? That’s plenty, and if asked outright about it, with proof in hand, he’d most likely deny it. He doesn’t recall, he isn’t aware, he can’t remember. It’s what they all do.
okiloki
Lying Ted doesn’t pray without an audience and he certainly doesn’t pray for children. He is all about money and power and has broken at least 3-5 of the Commandments so far. Will probably break all 10 by the time he goes to meet his real master, Satan.
Kangol2
Rafael Ted Cruz is a pathetic phony who will literally do anything for power and attention. He’s the same creep who let Don the Con insult his father and his wife, and then who was headed to Cancun as Texans were suffering. Texas voters have only themselves to blame because they keep returning this goon to the US Senate.
Creamsicle
Why is there so little reporting over the fact that police encountered and witnessed the shooter enter the school and not only stood by while they waited for backup, they physically restrained parents from doing anything to save their children for over 40 minutes.
Literally every “good guy with a gun,” argument was thoroughly destroyed by the atrocity happened in Texas.
The worst part is that we’re very much desensitized to these shootings now. When the Columbine shooting happened, the entire country stopped because the senseless violence and devastation. Now we just keep the news playing while we go about our day and shake our heads while we order a tall latte and get back to work.
No wonder Gen Z and younger are genuinely pessimistic about the world they’re doomed to inherit. I’d also spend my time and energy trying to become a teen influencer. It’s the only way they see to make enough money to escape the systemic problems in America.
LumpyPillows
I sure hope all the facts come out. I think they will. I’m sure there are cameras.
So, why did we capitulate on guns being a constitutional right? We allowed them to erase the first half of the second amendment. It is all about securing the nation, not arming the rabble.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
We allowed the right to set the debate.
Kangol2
Did “we” capitulate? Isn’t it the case that a majority of Americans still support sensible gun regulation? In fact, an extremist organization (NRA), which is flooded with money from gun and ammo companies and has even been shown to have received funding from foreign extremist sources (Maria Butiina, the Russian honeypot during Don the Con’s presidency, etc.), has funneled many, many millions to support right-wing extremist politicians (and many “centrist” ones), as well as far right jurists who have taken an absolutist view on the Second Amendment that is completely out of wack with what that amendment clearly and plainly says, with the history of US arms regulation, and with common sense.
As a result, just like abortion, the extremism keeps getting ratcheted up and politicians act helpless to go backwards, leaving the country in a various precarious, dangerous position.
LumpyPillows
You get it, but too many people say it’s a constitutional right to have a gun and quote the last half of the amendment. Too many people for gun control do not challenge this gross error. This was the first Supreme Court disaster in the rights overall plan to weaponize the court. Then Citizens United. Next abortion?
LumpyPillows
What is it about our messaging that we can’t seem to defeat someone as bad as Ted Cruz? He’s offensive, smug and elitist in the worst way. Really, it is our fault that we can’t figure this out after all this time. We can’t just be smug about our high and mighty values when we continue to lose when it matters (Trump/Clinton how did we lose that?).
There is no good reason Texas should be so lock step right wing when you study the population. What is it about our positions and messaging that does this? We can’t win by just being against them, we need to represent something that is for them. Too difficult a task for so many who never got past the first sentence in this post. Congrats on making it to the end.
Mr. Stadnick
The NRA is a terrorist organization
My2CentsWorth
Fname Optional Lname there is a very good and obvious reason for your statement being true.
“Obama will always be remembered fondly. Trump will always be remembered with disgust and embarrassment.”
Even if Obama should not be remembered fondly the reality of Trump means that he can’t ever be so remembered fondly but honestly with extreme disgust.
johncp56
Scummy denial shameless, why vote for these these scum based fools,,