Al Franken slams Ted Cruz on guns: "tell me one time a law-abiding citizen stopped a mass shooting. it's never happened!"

[basquebromance]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

send your examples to Franken on social media!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Armed parishioner says he's 'no hero,' as new details emerge about the Texas church shooter

Two members of West Freeway Church of Christ were killed in the attack.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Auld Phart]

if the law abiding citizen stopped it, it didn't become a mass shooting.

 

[shockedcanadian]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

I've heard of numerous cases where this happened. One was caught on video in a church even though the gunman shot a couple, it could have been much worse. Ditto for an incident not too long ago outside a bar.

I understand Americas belief in their right to bear arms. Everyone deserves the right to life and liberty. A gun can assure that at times.

 

[Peach45]

Um if they stopped a mass shooting, it wouldnt make much news bc the mass shooting didnt happen.

 

[Mac-7]

Armed parishioner says he's 'no hero,' as new details emerge about the Texas church shooter

Two members of West Freeway Church of Christ were killed in the attack.

abcnews.go.com

Take that Al, and shove it up your ass

 

[basquebromance]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

I've heard of numerous cases where this happened. One was caught on video in a church even though the gunman shot a couple, it could have been much worse. Ditto for an incident not too long ago outside a bar.

I understand Americas belief in their right to bear arms. Everyone deserves the right to life and liberty. A gun can assure that at times.

you do understand american politics/culture quite well for a....canadian!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Security guard who stopped shooter credits God - CNN.com

"It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God," said Jeanne Assam, describing her feelings as she confronted a man who charged into her Colorado Springs church Sunday firing a weapon.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Resnic]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/18/armed-civilian-kills-gunman-stops-shooting-spree-at-tumwater-wash-walmart/

2 civilians rushed to their cars to get their guns before fatally shooting Oklahoma City restaurant gunman

Several people were injured but all are expected to survive, police say.

abcnews.go.com

I'm not going to spend all day citing examples but there is a shitload of them. Franken is talking out of his ass and doesn't know what he is saying.

 

[shockedcanadian]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

I've heard of numerous cases where this happened. One was caught on video in a church even though the gunman shot a couple, it could have been much worse. Ditto for an incident not too long ago outside a bar.

I understand Americas belief in their right to bear arms. Everyone deserves the right to life and liberty. A gun can assure that at times.

you do understand american politics/culture quite well for a....canadian!

I didn't at first, believe me. It's been a lengthy process. I learned a great deal from this site and others.

I recall being at a casino in New York right around the time Trump was just running for the Primaries for the GOP. I'm a pretty polite and engaging fellow so I was chatting with a couple, maybe 10 years older than me. The conservation turned to politics at some point and I laughed and said, "can you imagine that Donald Trump is running for president"? with a laugh.

The guy was dead serious when he said "well, he can't be any worse than the useless idiots we have had in office for so long". He wasn't rude or anything, but he was being sincere. For the first time I heard an American live in the flesh call it as he saw it. He and his wife seemed like your average Joe, so I assumed at that point many more felt this way.

I changed the subject and had a nice chat. I initially thought he was seeing the world differently than I, until I heard Trump bring up China and the illegal alien issue. I was clueless about your border problems.

At that point I listened to Trump a little more intently. I thought he was a Dem plant tbh, some guy from NY, who I knew built much of his empire on debt and government write offs (from the former mayors of NY). Regardless, I learned alot.

As it were, I never touched a gun, I'm not a big fan of them. However, I understand why they are acceptable in the hands of a good person. People have a right to defend themselves and their families. It's just that simple. The more I listened to Americans in ways I would never be exposed in Canada, the more I started to appreciate the libertarianism ingrained in you.

 

[easyt65]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

send your examples to Franken on social media!

Who cares what the former female-molesting SNL alum who was forced out of office because of his exposed demeaning and abuse of women has to say?!

 

[Osiris-ODS]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

send your examples to Franken on social media!

Not to mention, most mass shootings that do happen occur in gun free zones.

 

[easyt65]

Yeah, you never see these cowardly psychos with a death wish charging and attempting to shoot up a police station or a military base - they want the softest targets possible with the least likely to get shot themselves.

 

[Roudy]

Is Al Franken done squeezing the boobs of women who are asleep, without their consent?

Party of women's rights.

 

[basquebromance]

“Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times a year.”

 

[westwall]

right off the bat, Franken slams Cruz. i can think of a lotta examples we have posted in the current events section!

send your examples to Franken on social media!

Fuck Franken. He's a worthless piece of shit.