Contact him at At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. “But protecting our kids, that has a much greater likelihood of stopping this kind of horrific murder.”īob Francis is business editor for the Fort Worth Report. “The Democrat’s answer of taking away firearms from law-abiding homes won’t prevent these kinds of crimes,” he said. “We need to do more to protect our kids,” he said. Cruz felt if that legislation had passed, it might have been effective in helping prevent tragedies like the Sutherland Springs shooting.Ĭruz has also proposed a $15 billion bill to double the number of school security officers around the country. Air Force didn’t submit the shooter’s criminal history to the FBI’s background check system.Ĭruz had introduced legislation in 2013 that would have required audits of federal agencies to target felons and others who attempt to purchase firearms illegally. government was liable for damages caused by the shooting when the U.S. In 2021, a federal court ruled that the U.S. “Whether you like Donald Trump or whether you can’t stand Donald Trump, you should be very concerned that prosecutors are trying to prevent the voters from electing someone just because the prosecutor is of a different political party,” he said.Ĭruz also commented on a tentative $144.5 million civil settlement between the Department of Justice and the 75 plaintiffs in the Sutherland Springs mass shooting in 2017 that killed 26 people. Like many Trump supporters, Cruz said the prosecutors in the case are abusing the justice system in pursuit of the former president, the first to ever be criminally indicted.
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