{"id":1492504,"date":"2022-05-26T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492504"},"modified":"2022-05-26T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:30:45","slug":"watch-british-journalist-taunts-cruz-mocks-america-after-texas-shooting-cruz-wrecks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-british-journalist-taunts-cruz-mocks-america-after-texas-shooting-cruz-wrecks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: British Journalist Taunts Cruz, Mocks America After Texas Shooting. Cruz Wrecks Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-british-journalist-taunts-cruz-mocks-america-after-texas-shooting-cruz-wrecks-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492504&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) retorted after a British journalist taunted him, mocking \u201cAmerican exceptionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz had finished a press conference at which Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott had spoken about the tragedy when the confrontation with Sky News\u2019 Mark Stone occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this the moment to reform gun laws?\u201d Stone asked Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it\u2019s easy to go to politics,\u201d Cruz answered.<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioning other issues at play in mass shootings, such as mental illness, Stone insisted, \u201cBut it\u2019s important. It\u2019s at the heart of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get that that\u2019s where the media likes to go,\u201d Cruz replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s not. It\u2019s where many of the people we\u2019ve talked to here like to go,\u201d Stone claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposals from Democrats and the media inevitably, when some violent psychopath murders people \u2014\u201d Cruz began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA violent psychopath is able to get a weapon so easily,\u201d Stone interjected. \u201cEighteen-year old with two AR-15s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to stop violent crime, the proposals the Democrats have \u2014 none of them would have stopped this,\u201d Cruz pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Then Stone turned to attacking America: \u201cBut why does this only happen in your country? I really think that\u2019s what many people around the world, just \u2014 they cannot fathom why only in America? Why is this American exceptionalism so awful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I\u2019m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful,\u201d Cruz retorted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis aspect of it. This aspect of it,\u201d Stone stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what? You\u2019ve got your political agenda. God love you,\u201d Cruz said, walking away.<\/p>\n<p>Stone followed, pressing, \u201cI just want to understand why you do not think that guns are the problem,\u201d then declared, \u201cIt is just an American problem, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman echoed. \u201cMr. Cruz, why is America the only country that faces this kind of mass shooting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone, excitedly, \u201cYou can\u2019t answer that.\u201d He repeated, \u201cYou can\u2019t answer that. \u00a0You can\u2019t answer that, can you sir? You can\u2019t answer that. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, fed-up, retorted, \u201cWhy is it that people come from all over the world to America? Because it\u2019s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on Earth. And stop being a propagandist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the United States leads the world in mass shootings has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-leads-world-in-mass-shootings-1443905359\">disputed<\/a> for years; in 2019, famed journalist John Stossel noted that the idea that the United States led the world in mass shootings might well be inaccurate, as shown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/02\/20\/the-us-has-the-most-mass-shootings-and-other-bogus-gun-research\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) retorted after a British journalist taunted him, mocking \u201cAmerican exceptionalism.\u201d Cruz had finished a press conference at which Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott had spoken about the tragedy when the confrontation with Sky News\u2019 Mark Stone occurred. \u201cIs this the moment &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1482295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}