After Boulder Shooting, Ted Cruz Says He Believes In “Power Of Prayer”

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March 23, 2021, 7:53 am

Congress committees convened on Tuesday under the shadow of the news from Boulder, Colorado. Less than a week after the shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, a gunman killed ten people in a grocery store in CO, CNN reports.

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It’s been a while since we had consecutive shootings in America, but that’s most likely because large gatherings have been discouraged for the last year or so.

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It is such a damning thing that as the quarantine lifts, mass shootings have come back quickly.

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The politicians gathered were prepared with their usual scripts after a shooting, and Ted Cruz immediately dove into it.

“All of us lift up in prayer the families in Boulder, Colorado, families in Atlanta that lost their lives,” he began.

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Cruz went on to say he was in Santa Fe during a mass shooting at a local high school and that there are many such incidents in Texas. Sooo, you want to do something about that, Senator?

Yes, but not anything helpful.

“It is time for us to do something, and every time there’s a shooting we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to prevent these shootings,” Cruz said.

Then he outlined proposed gun control legislation that targets “violent criminals” and “convicted felons,” even though the perpetrators of mass shootings are rarely either.

That’s because in Cruz’s opinion “what happens in this committee after every mass shooting is Democrats propose taking away guns from law-abiding citizens.”

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In a way, Cruz is right. This is political theater, so much so that people know what they expect to hear from Republican Congresspeople.

“Thoughts and prayers,” they usually tweet or say at press conferences. At this point, even the GOP knows what a cliché that is, so they’re doubling down on it.

“I agree it’s a time for action, and by the way, I don’t apologize for thoughts or prayers,” Cruz concluded angrily. “I will pray to lift up in prayer people who are hurting, and I believe in the power of prayer. And the contempt of Democrats for prayers is an odd sociological thing.”

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There isn’t much to say to this disingenuous sidetrack of the issue, but this tweet sums it up:

Based on how that went, I don’t think God hears Ted Cruz’s prayers.

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*First Published: March 23, 2021, 7:53 am