My Senator! Breaking through the fact-free zone in Washington and sweeping the floor on the gun control hearing today...
BeltwayConfidential: During the Senate Judiciary hearing on gun violence, Sen. Ted Cruz publicly ridiculed Democrats for their proposed ban on “assault weapons.”
Cruz pointed out that the phrases such as “assault weapons” and “military style weapons,” was a misleading tactic used by gun control advocates to scare American citizens unfamiliar with firearms.
“If it doesn’t ban machine guns, what does it ban?” asked Cruz. “What it bans, what I would suggest to you, are scary looking guns.”
Displaying a photo of a Remington 750, a popular hunting rifle, Cruz explained that it would be a legal firearm under the ‘assault weapons ban’ as long as it didn’t have cosmetic attachments.
Displaying a plastic pistol grip, Cruz explained that if he attached it to his rifle it would become a “banned assault rifle”
“Are you aware of any evidence to suggest that attaching a piece of plastic to this rifle would make it any way whatsoever slightly more dangerous?” asked Cruz.
Nope.
theRightScoop: Sen. Ted Cruz took his time today in the gun violence hearing to explain the fallacy of proposed Senate legislation going after so-called ‘assault weapons’ and ‘gun show loophole’, using charts and statistics and props. He even told the Senate that many times it seems their policy is based on emotion and that decisions are made in a ‘fact-free-zone’.
Thank you for sending this articulate statesman to Washington, Texans.
Also of note, Cruz was one of only three who voted against John 'D-Student' Kerry's confirmation as the new Secretary of State. Just sayin'.
