Thread: BREAKING NEWS! U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Speaks at 2013 NRA Convention HOUSTON, TX

BREAKING NEWS! U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Speaks at 2013 NRA Convention





HOUSTON, TX – Today U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) delivered remarks at the 2013 NRA Convention held in Houston, Texas. Below are excerpts:

RUSH TRANSCRIPT

“It seems to me that when the Constitution says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, that means the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Constitution matters. All of the Constitution. It’s not pick and choose. It’s not take what part you like and get rid of the parts you don’t like. For some reason Obama liberals want to disregard the First Amendment and take away our right to speak and political speech. For some reason they want to disregard the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. And, for some reason the Obama liberals want to disregard the Tenth Amendment and implement ObamaCare and take away our liberties. Every word of the Constitution matters. It is our fundamental protection of our liberties against the government….”



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“In America, the people have the power. A month ago you had the president holding press conference after press conference after press conference and his package of legislation that would have undermined the Second Amendment looked like an unstoppable freight train. I was proud to join my friends Senator Rand Paul and Senator Mike Lee in writing a short and simple letter to Harry Reid that said we will filibuster any legislation that undermines the bill of rights and the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. But what happened next was truly amazing.

What happened next was each and every one of you, millions of Americans began speaking out…and what happened in this battle is that millions of men and women across the country got on the phone, got on Facebook, got on Twitter and said, ‘Leave our Constitution alone.’

“Standing in front of this ginormous American flag is the closets this lawyer will come to feeling like General Patton. But I’m looking out at an Army, and the voice of each of you is how we win. And because each of you spoke out and because millions of Americans spoke out two weeks ago, when those proposals came to a vote every amendment that would have violated our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms was voted down.

“The fight is not over. President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have come out and said they intend to come back at it…I would like to invite the Vice President to engage in an hour long conversation and debate about how we stop crime. If Vice President Biden really believes the facts are on his side and this is not an exercise in political power, I would think he would welcome the opportunity to talk about the sources of violent crime and how we can do everything we can to stop it.“

Click here to download audio of Sen. Cruz’s remarks

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Ted Cruz Challenges Joe Biden to Gun Debate at NRA Forum

From ABC News, link below:

Sen. Ted Cruz challenged Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon to join him in a debate over solutions to violence in the United States.

“If he believes the answer to violent crime is not prosecuting felons and fugitives, not prosecuting gun crimes but going after the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens, I would like to invite the vice president to engage in an hour-long conversation and debate,” Cruz, R-Texas, a Tea Party favorite, told an enthusiastic audience at the National Rifle Association’s Leadership Forum in Houston. “How do we stop crime?”

Cruz criticized Democrats, including the president and vice president, for backing gun control legislation that included universal background checks, limits on magazine capacities and a ban on assault weapons, calling its defeat in the Senate “the victory of the American people.”

“If you are a violent criminal, we should come down on you like a ton of bricks,” Cruz said. “And at the same time, we should safeguard the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.”

Cruz mocked the vice president for advice that he gave at an online town hall that someone faced with an intruder should go outside and “fire two blasts” with a double-barrel shotgun.

Cruz said that advice ” is very useful if it so happens you’re being attacked by a flock of geese.”

He drew loud applause and a standing ovation when he brought up a letter he sent along with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, saying that they would block “any legislation that undermines the Bill of Rights or the Second Amendment right to bear arms.”

Before the vote that killed the Obama administration’s package of gun control bills, Vice President Biden had slammed Cruz, Paul and Lee for their filibuster threats, calling it “almost mind-boggling.”

“They’re saying we’re not even going to talk about this, a tragedy that traumatized the nation and caught the attention of the entire world,” Biden said, just hours after meeting with families of the victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. “And after all the thinking and the debate and the discussion, with overwhelming majority of the American people thinking that the proposals the president put forward make absolute sense, the climax of this tragedy could be we’re not even going to get a vote?”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...-at-nra-forum/

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