Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said President Barack Obama is “exploiting the murder of children” to push an extreme anti-gun agenda that much of the country opposes.
Cruz told Laura Ingraham on her radio show that Obama was “high on his own power,” and that Democrats overall would pay a political price for the president’s crackdown on citizens that have not broken laws and are only exercising their constitutional rights.
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"He is feeling right now high on his own power, and he is pushing on every front, on guns," Cruz said. "And I think it's really sad to see the president of the United States exploiting the murder of children and using it to push his own extreme, anti-gun agenda.
“I think what the president is proposing and the gun control proposals that are coming from Democrats in the Senate are, number one, unconstitutional, and number two, they don't work. They're bad policy."
Cruz said that the Democrats he has seen on television in recent weeks, “a bunch of rich, northeastern liberals who don’t own guns [and] don’t know anybody who owns guns” are making a big mistake that will be paid for by voters in red states in the 2014 midterm elections.
“There have got to be some Democrats who are up for reelection in 2014 who are very, very nervous right now that President Obama is picking this fight,” Cruz said. “The citizens of their states are not interested in the federal government banning gun ownership for law-abiding citizens. That’s part of what this does, is ban certain categories of weapons being owned by people who have never broken the law.”
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