Cruz: If Obama Hadn’t Cut School Safety Funding, an Armed Officer Might Have Been at Parkland

‘If that had been there, that might have resulted in an armed police officer at the Parkland high school

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CRUZ: "There is a lot we can be doing. This pattern plays out. We are in Washington, lots of politicians want to do something. Whenever something bad happens, there is an urge to do something but there’s very little focus on what the something is. When I was elected in 2012, I showed up in 2013 and shortly after we saw the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. It was horrifying. Republicans were falling all over themselves scared and you had Chuck Schumer and Democrats saying, now we are going to pass massive gun control legislation. We beat that. I was a brand-new senator and happily led the fight against that but we did not beat it with nothing. We beat it with an alternative. I offered legislation that was known as the grassly-cruz legislation. It targeted bad guys. On school funding, grassly-cruz had $300 million for school safety funding. The Obama Administration of cut — had cut millions of dollars from school safety. Be had 52 senators — we won 9 Democrats but Harry Reid and the Democrats filibustered grassly-cruz so I did not pass. — So it did not pass. They demanded 60 votes. If that had been there, that might have resulted in an armed police officer at the parkland high school which could have made a difference in intercepting that madman and stopping before he murdered those teens."

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