Ted Cruz Slammed for ‘Every Time There’s a Shooting’ Defense of Guns After Boulder Massacre – By Andi Ortiz (The Wrap) / Mar 23 2021
Ted Cruz is under fire once again, this time for a “tone deaf” defense of guns after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado on Monday. But people are upset with more than just his opposition to any attempt to limit gun violence; they’re also pointing out the Senator’s blasé acknowledgement of how common mass shootings are in the U.S.
“Every time there’s a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders,” Cruz said on Tuesday in pushing back against Democrats for proposing legislation to limit the proliferation of guns following the massacre, which was the second mass shooting in the United States in less than a week.
People quickly latched onto the words “every time,” pointing out both the irony of the choice of phrase, and the tragedy of it, calling Cruz “tone deaf” and “a national embarrassment.”
“Every time there’s a shooting” is definitely a phrase to start your defense of guns https://t.co/qS9jDtIpjJ
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) March 23, 2021
