{"id":1563155,"date":"2022-07-20T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1563155"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:34:24","slug":"disarm-the-law-abiding-citizens-ted-cruz-shreds-dems-solutions-to-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disarm-the-law-abiding-citizens-ted-cruz-shreds-dems-solutions-to-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disarm The Law-Abiding Citizens\u2019: Ted Cruz Shreds Dems\u2019 \u2018Solutions\u2019 To Violent Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fdisarm-the-law-abiding-citizens-ted-cruz-shreds-dems-solutions-to-violent-crime%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=1563155&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/DCNF-Cruz-Lambastes-Dems-Guns-Featured-e1658342163697.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas lambasted Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee for pushing \u201cpolitical solutions\u201d to violent crime during a hearing focused on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the objective is, stop mass murders, gun control doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Cruz said during the hearing. \u201cThe state of Illinois has among the strictest gun control laws of any state in the country. Highland Park has even stricter gun control laws than the state of Illinois. Consistently if you look across the country, the jurisdiction with the strictest gun control laws almost without exception, they have the highest crime rates and the highest murder rates.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/05\/dems-gun-control-highland-park\/\">(RELATED: It Took Just Hours For Dems To Demand More Gun Control After Highland Park Shooting)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s hearing came in the aftermath of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/04\/report-gunfire-erupts-fourth-of-july-parade-highland-park-illinois-chicago\/\">mass shooting<\/a> in Highland Park, Illinois, that killed seven people and wounded 24. Cruz claimed Democrats were not interested in policies that would actually stop such shootings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir objective is disarm the law-abiding citizens,\u201d Cruz said, discussing how Elisjsha Dicken <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/good-samaritan-elisjsha-dicken-indiana-mall-shooting\/\">stopped<\/a> a mass shooter in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz criticized Democrats for voting down legislation he and Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/senators-cruz-barrasso-introduce-legislation-to-protect-kids-double-number-of-school-resource-officers-in-schools\">introduced<\/a> in June. The legislation had provisions that would double the number of school resource officers, provide $10 billion for mental health counselors and would require the National Institute of Justice and National Academy of Sciences to conduct studies on mass shootings and report the findings to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/25\/this-is-going-to-save-a-lot-of-lives-biden-signs-bipartisan-gun-control-bill-into-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed<\/a> a bipartisan bill into law in June that enhances some background checks, closes the so-called \u201cboyfriend loophole\u201d and provides funds for \u201cred flag\u201d laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats on this committee, and every Democrat in the Senate, voted against Cruz-Barrasso,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause a proposal that actually is devoting resources to law enforcement, to stopping the murders, to preventing the crimes, to getting murderers off the street, that is not politically advantageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, many of the Democrats on this committee would happily ban concealed handguns,\u201d Cruz said, claiming it would have disarmed Dicken.<\/p>\n<p>The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that the number of what it describes as \u201cmodern sporting rifles\u201d in the United States is 24.4 million, according to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/commonly-owned-nssf-announces-over-24-million-msrs-in-circulation\/\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Cruz provided the Daily Caller News Foundation information on the legislation Cruz discussed in the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;If the objective is, stop mass murders, gun control doesn\u2019t work&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563155","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\/1563155","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}