While campaigning in Indiana yesterday, Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz was confronted by a Donald Trump supporter. In the middle of the exchange captured on camera, the dimwitted protester challenged Cruz, “What are you going to do about the Second Amendment?”
Cruz—who authored a pivotal amicus brief defending the right to bear arms in Heller—took the Trump supporter to school, noting, “I have defended the Second Amendment in front of the Supreme Court. Do you know that Donald Trump supported Bill Clinton’s national ban on some of the most popular firearms in America?”
Cruz is entirely correct.
Trump fully supported the 1994 “assault weapons” ban of Bill Clinton, which would ban many of the most common firearms sold in the United States, such as the AR-15. Trump in fact cited his support of the ban in his book The America We Deserve.
Cruz went on from there, completely shutting down the stunned protester and his friends for a full minute by noting that Trump said during a debate that he was willing to cut a deal with radically anti-gun Chuck Schumer to put a liberal Justice on the Supreme Court, which would create an opportunity for gun control supporters to eviscerate the right to bear arms.
Cruz—who authored a pivotal amicus brief defending the right to bear arms in Heller—took the Trump supporter to school, noting, “I have defended the Second Amendment in front of the Supreme Court. Do you know that Donald Trump supported Bill Clinton’s national ban on some of the most popular firearms in America?”
Cruz is entirely correct.
Trump fully supported the 1994 “assault weapons” ban of Bill Clinton, which would ban many of the most common firearms sold in the United States, such as the AR-15. Trump in fact cited his support of the ban in his book The America We Deserve.
Cruz went on from there, completely shutting down the stunned protester and his friends for a full minute by noting that Trump said during a debate that he was willing to cut a deal with radically anti-gun Chuck Schumer to put a liberal Justice on the Supreme Court, which would create an opportunity for gun control supporters to eviscerate the right to bear arms.
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