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Cruz responded to a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, by pushing against calls for more stringent gun laws.

Republicans have often blamed mental illness for mass shootings, avoiding assigning responsibility to the ease of access to firearms in the US. "Inevitably when there's a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens," Cruz said to reporters on Tuesday, adding, "That doesn't work. And though polling has consistently shown that most voters on both sides of the aisle support policies such as expanding background checks, Republicans in Congress have consistently blocked efforts to pass legislation along these lines. They haven't worked for the last 20 mass shootings how about passing laws that will stop these killings," Gallego said in a tweet responding to GOP Rep. Darrell Issa of California offering "thoughts and prayers" to the families of the victims of the shooting. Cruz in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday also suggested that schools should have armed law enforcement present to help prevent shootings. The Texas shooting came on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v.

After the mass shooting at an elementary school in his home state, the senator called for armed law enforcement on campuses and faulted Democrats for ...

“Ted Cruz is just a slave to the gun lobby,” Mr. Castro said. Representative Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, called him a “baby killer” in an expletive-laden post on Twitter. In the aftermath of Tuesday’s school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, Mr. Cruz remained unapologetic in his broad opposition to gun control measures. That firm stance has for years thwarted Democratic efforts to enact gun safety measures, even as the death toll from mass shootings in the United States has grown anew. But Mr. Cruz, Texas’ junior senator, has almost uniformly opposed other measures aimed at combating gun violence. “But as sure as night follows day, you can bet there are going to be Democrat politicians looking to advance their own political agenda, rather than to work to stop this kind of horrific violence and to keep everyone safe.” “If Republicans abandon the Second Amendment and demoralize millions of Americans who care deeply about Second Amendment rights, that could go a long way to electing a President Elizabeth Warren,” Mr. Cruz said, referring to the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination at the time. Last year, after a mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colo., that killed 10 people, Mr. Cruz renewed his complaints that Democrats were seeking to politicize the issue. During his time in the Senate, Mr. Cruz has insisted that he is trying to focus his attention on legislative measures that would narrowly target criminals and protect the rights of citizens who follow the law. Before the shooting, Mr. Cruz, who received an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association during his 2018 re-election bid, was scheduled to address the organization on Friday at its convention in Houston. A spokeswoman for Mr. Cruz did not respond when asked if he still planned to attend the gathering. “If you look to the past, we know what is effective, and it is targeting the felons and fugitives and the bad guys,” Mr. Cruz told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday evening. WASHINGTON — Hours after the worst school shooting in a decade took place in his home state, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas acknowledged that there were “way too many of these horrific mass murders” and suggested a possible solution: putting armed law enforcement on campuses.