Ted Cruz Storms Off After Questions About Guns, Wants Door Control Instead: A Closer Look

Exactly!

USA is the upsidedown

Not the mention our rights to go to a movie, a concert, church or the grocery store

They did take the guns. It was a gun free zone. A women's right to her body does not extend to her child's body. You want safe classrooms? Arm teachers that want to be armed. We have always learned about our history.

@@jhutch1470 Obviously not enough of a 'gun free zone,' though, was it? You're an idiot. I'd suggest you go to back to school and learn some more but I don't want you to die.

Grifting. Rage spouting. Fox-splaining in misinfo- speak. Lyin' Ted Raphael Cancun Canuck Cuban Cruz who only dropped his dual citizenship to not only run for Senate but for President of a country he wasn't born in and mainly to stop embarrassing Canada for having any connection to him, believe those things are his job as a (shudder) Senator.

But you probably like Chucky Scmucky who wants to make sure only criminals and politicians will have guns. Oops criminals and politicians are essential the same.

Mastriano did the same thing in Pa when a reporter started asking him about stopping the steal and he ran away. This is who repubs want for gov. in Pa. Although I think he might be worse than Cruz.

Cater to lobbyists and cash their checks.

Run away when the going gets cold

I fergot trump called cruzs beard ugly.

Yup! 😂😂😂😊

And proof that anyone can graduate from Harvard.

Even tacky, disgraceful, disgusting, selfish, lacking empathy, doesn't care, loves to run, Ted Cruz.

He's also proof that not everyone SHOULD.

Wrong, Ted Cruz is proof that morons are responsible for electing one of their own.

And it was so forced and so insincere. Like a bad reality TV show.
He really is “Lyin’ Ted Cruz.”

America is truly the land of opportunity, where even a loser with no character or convictions can become a Senator.

Yes I reacted the same way. Cruz is despicable.

How did Lying Ted went out, He went out like a b!tch.

@@MaryamofShomal even a broken clock is right twice a day. Or something like that..

Me too!. Total LOL

Hey Siri, do you call Dana? I’m having very far to know what is a girl you mean who’s calling on this phone call to Roseville

Hi Sam, that song beautiful are you messed it up

Are you sure you’re an English to say because he didn’t mess up everything I say

What time is it in the system? How do you name 6:14

Trump must have read that quote. Ah just kidding he never reads anything.

Great quote. Apt.

It would be amazing if an overwhelming mass of people from Uvalde and elsewhere showed up to protest their event.

They really only care about themselves!

Exactly. These politicians aren't pro gun, they're pro gun lobby money.

No guns allowed at the convention, either.

@@DennisMoore664 I was thinking this too

And Kevlar backpack

Right?!? It's insane

In their mind the fact that those security services would most likely also harass black students at a disproportionate rate is probably just an additional benefit of that system

In the end they only care for their own desires and nothing else, and they got here by desperate politicians selling the freedoms of others to buy votes.
But at this rate the second civil war is around the corner as the point of no return is quickly approaching.
Though this is likely to be embraced as the far-right see their shrinking voter numbers and would rather strike now than change their political platform.

… and doing nothing, so the children know that school shootings are likely to keep on happening, and have to find a way to live with that hanging over their heads. Nice.

@Brucifer Mephistopheles - That's almost hilarious--the idea of mentally (and morally) deficient leaders "improving" mental health.

lol yeah it's really infuriating when the only party that recognizes that killing mass amounts of literal children is a mental health issue is the same party who exploits neurodivergent people the most
i hate this fucking country so much

Fair point, but most of them do say improving mental health is done by bringing people back to the Church and wholesome family times (of 1950's I guess?)

Within the last two weeks, Abbott signed off on a cut of over 110 million dollars on next year's mental health budget for Texas. There is a direct correlation between domestic abuse and the abuse of animals, and these shooters. If we just forbid any of those people from owning weapons of death, we could cut the number of deaths by around 75%.

Texas spends the less per capita on mental health than any other state in the country.

He may have been honest but he was making it seem like Ted Cruz is stupid. And he was making it sound like protecting gun laws is bad. Sorry to say it(not really) but Seth is a one sided person only focusing on one side of the story and trying to make people get on the bandwagon with him.

Let me make something clear
GUNS are not the problem psycho ass people are, gangs are, criminals are. When have you ever seen a gun grow legs and walk up to someone and shoot them
NEVER.

love Carlin

Or a shooter blocks off the only exit.
Maybe more doors? So people can, you know, get out of a building quickly without having to wander through the halls for too long.

Even call of duty players know a bottleneck is a good spot to rack up a kill streak. This is like tactics 101.

I wouldn't be surprised if they started chaining doors shut.

If schools had one door with an armed guard, the NRA would insist on their right to bring weapons in.

It’s a good thing there’s no more bomb threats anymore too… 🤦‍♂️

R/iwantout

nothing is keeping you here leave

The correct answer is "propaganda" propelled by jingoistic and chauvinistic interests (do not confuse with "male chauvinism" specifically) and aided by the massive media presence of the US in popular culture and their retaliatory potential in terms of economic matters (i.e being unliked by the US closes a lot of doors for countries that want to create opportunities for trade and diplomacy).
So basically good PR with a hearty dose of fear of economical/literal annihilation has built up the US as the "home of the free" and a "land of opportunity" despite both monikers being severely out of date.
Also Ronda, people who are dissatisfied with their country usually try to work and improve it, they don't just leave. Or are you under the impression that people are incapable of loving something and being disappointed by it at the same time?

Writing from america.
You likely would feel safer in those countries, because when a mass shooting happens, the guns laws in those countries are IMMEDIATELY changed, closing loopholes, making it harder to get a gun.
Sadly, there are too many “real” republicans who refuse to change, they’d rather get money and support from the NRA.

@@rondaperry7243 unfortunately it’s a little more complicated than just wanting to move out of the country. Not everyone has the privilege to leave.

it's easy to go to logic

What he meant to say is "it's easy to arrive at the logical conclusion". I mean, what else would you call 'less guns = less shootings'? It's like saying 'less dynamite = less explosions'.

governments job is to control you peasants through fear while you still hallucinate government authority and never learned to read a history book

Well, everyone needs an AR 15

Oh yes it's the Media that is at fault

And an invitation for a free dinner on Friday

So true!

Bought and paid for by merchants of death.

And an invite to meet and greet in the other pocket.

You want to disarm the good guys?

They more than earned it he knows it right there like yeah Oscar Worthy Ted Cruz is a clown and I have no sympathy for him of whatsoever but everybody else I hope they do the right thing and get him the f*** out of there and just put Beto in there they should have did that in the first place 🤔🙏😎

BURN! That _was_ brilliant.
I'd listen to that over and over except I don't want to hear any more from Ted.

Omg. Right, it was so great.

The one door idea is one step of stupid behind having dogs around the school, or bees, or dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees at you.

@@joshreynolds7643 Feeling inadequate, I see.

While blaming the media- GQP101

This creep is actually Canadian

He ran toward the eagle scouts and shook their hands because all he saw was a uniform and thought they were cops. He ran to what he thought was armed protection from the big scary journalist who had dangerous questions.

he is such a weasel!! Ted Cruz

"Think Ted, Gotta give Fox News a soundbite to edit out all the cowardice."-Ted's thoughts just before his parrot routine.

Asking an American polititician to do their job is frankly unfair. It's a hobby interest, like cheerleading. When you break it down, US politicians perform the same services for lobbies that cheerleaders do for sports teams. I'm sorry if that creates images which are somewhat graphic for some who might read this.

American politics is disgusting.

Just have to vote the 'power hungry' idiots like Cruz out.
GOYA, Get out of your couch, register & show up to vote.
Save yourselves & your children coz you might be closer to the action & consequences some time soon!

Also Ted Cruz-They're coming after the cat in the hat!

NDA (National Door Association) has put out a statement urging republicans to not politicize this issue.

Exactly! "Let's not make this political" said..........the ...politician!?!?

He doesn't get as much money from the Fire lobby as he gets from the Gun lobby... so, lots of dead kids from fire is fine.

ID10T

For real! That’s what I visualized, then he doubled down… not just no unlocked back doors, but just one Fort Knox in the front? 🤦‍♂️

@@It-b-Blair these ammo-sexuals will not be happy until everyone is living in their own fortress pointing missile launchers at each other, only then is it true 'freedum!!!!!™'

Well it would probably reduce school shootings... because it would be vastly more effective to simply light a fire in front of the only exit.

@@jb7872 i can agree to that

How would he know he’s always away somewhere

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmao

Oh, they're very selective about what they don't want politicized. Killing unborn children? Politicize! Killing born children? Don't Politicize!

Exactly right!! So insane to me

They are oligarchs masquerading as politicians

Funny how Republicans like to say the other side is being political while pretending that they aren't being political themselves.

@@thekaren1111 isn't it a fact that a politicians job is politics?

When a fascist tells you that you're being political, it means you're disagreeing with him.

Remember covid and mask? XD

@@esmeraldagreengate4354 Asking an American polititician to do their job is frankly unfair. It's a hobby interest, like cheerleading. When you break it down, US politicians perform the same services for lobbies that cheerleaders do for sports teams. I'm sorry if that creates images which are somewhat graphic for some who might read this.

_"when a politician says don't politicize an issue, just remind them that they are 'Politicians' and it's their job."_
You're assuming a lot about politicians. When a politician says something, 99% of the time they're projecting. Learn some critical thinking skills. Critical thinking doesn't make you cynical; your lack of it makes me that.

They only care about unborn tissue. Once you are born you are on your own.

Loooool

Brilliant, Maurice R!

👏👏 gold

Lmao

Only Ted Cruz can come out with this idea 😭😭

This was my thought pattern as well, multiple shooters would so love choke-points.

They don't think.

Worse than that, it concentrates all the people who are entering into one compact kill zone that's exposed in all directions, just what the mass shooter wants.

Protect the inside by a security door, but anyone outside playing or walking in is fair game?? Ridiculous

The freest and most prosperous... I suppose that's why so many Americans are trying to run from USA but can't because bureaucratic walls.

Freedom for all, but limited to...
Women? minorities? The poor? The homeless?

@@encarnacionvillazana3270 The Declaration of Independence says all MEN are created equal. It says nothing about women, children, poor people, farming tools, or other thing.
(:

@@vojtik135
Yes. Nobody reads. The skim. The ignore responsibility and duty, and listen to what they consider "rights" under man made words...

At a press conference in front of their sycophants they accuse others of making it political. It's beyond parody.

We need to outlaw lobbying. (and the filibuster but that is another rant) Lobbying is bribery, corruption. The NRA has paid politicians to stop guns laws for decades. Stop lobbying, set a limit on political contributions (and tax them), demand financial transparency in government and we will finally have government for the people.

When a fascist tells you that you're being political, it means you're disagreeing with him.

EXACTLY!!!!

And who get millions in bribes from the NRA.

"Let's not politicize this..."
- Politician, who currently looks bad politically due to ineffective policy

When they say that, it's a ploy to buy time so the issue will cool off. Disgusting.

lol

You actually ask a waiter where the food is. LMAO.
A school shooting shouldn't be politicized but everytime it happens, it does get politicized. Gun owners who are responsible are not responsible for the acts of a psychopath. They just aren't. By eliminating all guns, you are hurting and punishing people who have been responsible

There's plenty of irony to go around. There's no irony deficiency, for sure. For instance, the GOP thinks infants are infinitely precious, and they constitute an absolute and implacable ban machine when it comes to protecting their right to life. One tiny detail: it seems the small print must stipulate they're precious only up until they're born.
Then it's a fatalistic mass shrug from Republican legislators and gun worshippers alike, "Hey, watcha gonna do? Banning evil never works"

Spot on

Well ya know.. big Pharma checks and the NRA basically run the country

Brilliant! Call out the hypocrisy.

Clearly to republicans sexual activity is a bigger problem than mass shootings.

Teds solution to gun violence: ban doors.

At this point of time all kids and school staff need bulletproof vests as part of their school dress code. But the repukes would go crazy and would scream take those off the children we need to let the children breathe! Really? 19 children are no longer breathing? 2 teachers are no longer breathing!! These POSs are evil.

Sound like something crazy brain dead trump would say

Ted would make it about not having enough guns. Then he'd say something like, "You should have prayed."

Civil Villain == You should take over Seths place

I nearly fell off my bed at the rawness of that.

Well, if I was his neighbor, I'd either move immediately, or do everything in my power to never see him. I'd put a 30 foot fence between us. I'd leave home at 3am. I'd send him a letter saying NEVER to step in my yard because I shoot first and ask questions later, even though I don't own a gun.

He did that as an aggressive move. When one man puts his hands on another like that. He is basically saying “am going to kick your ass”

@@mikey2toes966 lol my money's on the middle weight reporter who looks 20 years younger. I don't think the overweight almost senior Cruz could kick anyone's butt.

Because that would involve touching Ted Cruz, and there's only so far that justified hatred can push you.

You think he goes home to Texas? Probably staying in a hotel by the airport cause his wife doesn't want him home.

But without the healthcare that prisons provide.

that's because the right wants more prisons and less public schools.

You say that like a bad thing.
People act like an unattended chain link fence is enough to keep students and staff safe.
At the very least schools need guards outside.
Did you hear about the man who got onto a school campus and was detained by three teachers? That happened within the last 24 hours.
If school had actual security to secure school grounds, than people like that man and the Texas shooter wouldn't even had made it on school grounds.
It's obvious gun control isn't going to happen any time soon, but the least we can do is secure campuses.

You would rather have a morgue?

@@thisistheaccountname yes, a highly motivated person with an AR-15 high velocity rifle verses an underpaid security guard with a handgun. Okay…..you Republicans seem to have a great imagination with your power fantasies. Why don’t you direct that energy to other things, like healthcare and making billionaires pay their taxes?

Been thinking about that since he came out with drivel

To be "Fair and Balanced ™", nobody is actually suggesting single door buildings. This is a strawman. The idea is to have single *entrance* buildings. One-way fire exists would still be available. That said, it's still a ridiculous band-aid fix of a suggestion only meant to distract from the actual problem.

@@christopher6600
Pretty sure Ol' Lyin Ted was adamant about there being only "One door."

@@christopher6600 he said "one way in and one way out" so yeah. He said one door.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't secure schools better. Unattended chain link fences won't keep intruders out.
Did you hear about the man who got on to a school campus and was detained by three teachers or the second grader who brought a gun to class? Both happened in the last twenty four hours. Better security outside the schools would have prevented that man from even getting onto the campus and metal detectors would have prevented that second grader from getting that gun to his class.

Maybe if we used guns on them, they'd change their tune quite quickly. Bullets ripping through Cruz's head, Kemps lungs filled with holes as he drowns in his own blood, even McConnell s throat sack would spray viscera everywhere, they'd act SOOOOOOOO quick.

Which proves It’s a culture problem. We identify freedom with guns and as long as they don’t take those they can get away with a lot.

@@raymonds7492 America isn’t free by any measure. Low life expectancy, high poverty rates, abysmal voting rights, and high violent crime rates. Gun laws would be an easy starting point, but we have a long way to go.

It's easy when you don't care/try to prevent anything.

@@Axolotl_Mischief it’s also easy when your country has laws that protect individual safety.

Best comment I've read all night. The only thing I would add is that even in places where they've decided they do need more cops, people aren't applying for the job because _it's too dangerous to protect a school in this country._

It's both. There's a stunning clip of Newt Gingrich tacitly acknowledging that objectively the US is far safer than a couple of decades ago, but saying "I'll go with what the voters think".
Of course it's the GOP's job to TELL the voters what to think, (ie, America is in imminent danger from within), but they can also leak out bits of truth on the topic, at other times, and subject to strict moderation, if it suits the agenda of a proportion of their paymasters (the lobbies, who actually write US laws)

Well, when one suffers from Chronic Cranial Rectosis they do think everything stinks.

the school got more cops and still didn't do jack 🤦

@@Gottenhimfella I've never understood this. How is US the freeest country? What can you do there that you can't in other democratic countries?

Remember the Triangle Waistcoat Factory Fire where over 140 workers (mostly immigrant women) perished when there was a controlled, locked exit? Fire departments worldwide mandated multiple exits enforced by penalty of imprisonment or severe fines if ever these regulations are violated. Maybe Ted Cruz can read that story on his next flight to the Caribbean for vacation.

Yep that’s what I just said

@@jamesbrady5807 Good point! Ted Cruz should have studied harder.

They're fine with children burning alive too, so long as they get to keep their murder machines to LARP with

@@cosmosofinfinity Do you mind explaining LARP?

I dont get it. I mean there are many countries where you live free. Its nothing special.

It’s prosperous for Ted he keeps getting big money from the NRA

And didn't he say "safest", too?

@@capturedflame Yes, he is.

The great American heroes of your state, Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving would certainly not have tolerated this behaviour. Remember them and remain proud!

They are living in the 1700s

I sympathize, but they've gone far past joke status. They are quite literally responsible for the DEATHS of Texans. Whether it's:
1) mishandling COVID and misrepresenting the value of mitigation, masking, testing, and vaccines, or
2) completely failing to develop a modern safe reliable power grid, or
3) Support, enact, and support COMMON SENSE gun laws.
In each case, their dereliction of duty is KILLING TEXANS!

Me too, Deborah.

France had over 400 people slaughterd in mass killings in the past 7 years which is far more than the US and for a population almost 6 times smaller,
2015 150 people murdered by the suicidal german pilot Andreas Lubitz when he crashed his plane in the Alps near the city of Nice
2015 131 people gunned down in the Paris attacks , 90 of which were attending a heavy metal concert and the rest were at a soccer game attendented by the french president ,2 restaurants and a café
2015 17 people shot dead among them Charlie Hebdo journalists and kosher market customers
2016 86 people murdered by a killer that ran them over with a rental 19-tonne cargo truck during a Bastille Day parade in Nice
2019 3 police officers and an employee stabbed to death by police coworker
2020 Woman beheaded and 2 others killed by a knifeman in a church in Nice

Excuse me, you can't believe anything. He says, he escaped to Mexico when Texas ran out of power leaving thousands of Texans to die. He doesn't care about anybody but himself.

Republican Solution: Assault rifles for everybody! No training, license, or age limits!

"I stand by my constitutional right to have an unregulated door. Face it -doors arent the problem - the knobs are the real threat here"....TED CRUZ 2023

@@acari27 Every time I see a video - end up shaking my head in disbelief. International media have moved in now -
he's going to run out of places to hide. Bring it on. Regards.

The restrooms...
Cruz: but it's a unisex restroom, I might be turned _gay!_
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQs: we promise, we _DO NOT_ want _you_ to be one of us.
Straights: well _we_ don't him either! Who will take him? Any takers? Anyone?!?

Great in school shootings!

And he says people come to America because it's the safest country? Really Ted? Give us the evidence. Oh,I forgot. The GOP has a little trouble producing evidence.

america was the greatest like 100 years ago, now it really is lagging behind on a lot of issues

America is great? Really? Is it??

Safest?! Not by a longshot.

Exactly! Quite a few people in America are indifferent to elections. It’s a shame that they don’t make good use of their votes.

Thank you so much!

Candidate for *Best of Thread*.

You are right, the GOP wants their only job to be gaining and holding power, not to be expected to do anything for anyone. No improvements, no safety, no responsibility is what the GOP wants.

that's why you say, "well, yes, this, by definition IS a political issue."

Vote these criminals out! They run for office to get rich & powerful...not to serve their constituents..Once in office they don't give a rat's ass about who put them there.They pass bills that keep them in power regardless of what the majority wants. They dispise the voters.They feel they're above the law. They say they're against abortion, for example, until their mistress needs one.They say they want to save the unborn..big lie..but won't lift a finger to save the living children by passing common sense gun controls. Their solution...more guns, less doors. Idiots!! Why is it harder to get a credit card than it is to buy an assault weapon whose purpose is to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible? What is wrong with us? Who poisoned the well?

Please run for public office. We really need sensible people like you in power as opposed to the crooks we have now

Right: what they mean is, leave me alone, don't make me answer your questions, let me just mouth pieties and then go back to Business as Usual.

Sadly he has been elected … more than once , I hate to say it but he obviously represents his constituents. America you are f*cked !!

The NRA pays him more to do nothing

@@theexerciseedit3147 and they’re running out of it.

As useful as Abbott's legs!

... and corrupt

So just like all other Republicans. But sure, let's focus on Ted. If you vote him out the world will be saved. That worked so well with getting Trump out, eh.

@Merril R No, no! No returns, no refunds.

He is so far up TRUMP & NRA's assas can only smell roses. Rose's love that shet!
GOYA, vote the poly-pricks out!
2nd amendment 'right to bare arms' was ment for the immediate moment where little policing & protection services was available. It was for you to protect you family, land & lifestyle of the times. Not to create vigilantes, mass murders & suppressionist. Just self preservation.

I wouldn't be surprised if a gunman either got someone to pull the fire alarm or posed as a volunteer at the school and pulled the fire alarm knowing everyone exiting the building from that one door would be running directly into the line of fire with nowhere to go as a traffic jam of people occurred. What of the guards at the door? They'd be dead before they could aim and fire at the head of the gunman with the fully automatic rifles who's wearing full body armor.

Yes I agree. If you are only aloud to have a gun with six bullets in the magazine you can only kill six children, so that not so bad, is? Or we could ban guns all together. Has anybody else thought of that or am I the only one.

I mean. The killer only used one door.

Lol you nailed it. As a former teacher this guy has no clue how schools work. End of day dismissal would be a nightmare!!

He knows that what he spews is complete BS. He’s a shameless scumbag

My school actually did this, it was so frustrating when I was late. There were lots of doors but only one set had exterior handles.

And add that this shooter started his rampage in the parking lot.

I'm kind a boiling but yes Seth and Stephen n Jimmy help.

well get ready Ellen retired today its about to get very unsettled

I've been alternating between crying jags and rage this week, but Seth breaking character managed to make me laugh.

dont let it cooldown please because thats what will make things like that happen again. Voting, Prostesting and be in Senators and Gov. officials faces will maybe make a change finally.

@@jeswilde6188 That is the only good news today...

He actually had a Lorde moment there. :)

and in this case, it was a Fox journalist asking the questions, right?
I mean... I have no words :-/

Simple question - why do any - any - news networks [(which excludes moronic propaganda channel Fox (obviously)] bother to try to interview Belial Cruz, Total Recall Greene, Lyingdill etc? That's just wasting time - oh wait - gottit - that's the Reptilian Partys objective - waste as must time as possible, despite the increasing need for body bags - welcome to ("the safest country") America, folks....

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 No it was Sky News. Murdoch did own part of it at one point but it's now all owned by Comcast and it's never been anything close to Fox News in it's reporting or bias.

Every door was supposed to be locked - even the classrooms, but Texas is so lax on guns that they don't bother.

No, it wasn't