Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) stormed off an interview with a British reporter on Wednesday rather than answer a tough question about America’s mass shooting epidemic.
It happened when Sky News reporter Mark Stone asked the pro-gun senator whether Monday’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, represented an opportunity to reform gun laws.
Cruz, who is among the top recipients of campaign contributions from gun lobbyists, didn’t like the question and suggested the reporter was politicizing the tragedy.
“You know, it’s easy to go to politics,” he said, before dismissing previous suggestions to curb gun violence.
“The proposals from Democrats and the media? Inevitably, when some violent psychopath murders people… if you want to stop violent crime, the proposals the Democrats have? None of them would have stopped this,” Cruz claimed.
Stone followed up by noting that America is “exceptional” when it comes to mass shootings ― with 288 school shootings between 2009 and 2018 ― 280 more…
