Cruz Links Fla. School Shooting to Obama’s $300 Million Cut in School Safety Budget

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CRUZ: "Sir, when you disarm law-abiding citizens the consequence is the criminals have the gun. Now listen, let me finish. I said we need to be effective so there is a lot we can do to be effective in stopping crime. Just yesterday I reintroduced legislation that I introduced in 2013. It was called Grassley-Cruz. It was in the wake of Newtown. And what it does is instead of the Democratic talking points of going after law-abiding citizens, it focuses on criminals -- on violent criminals. So one of the things Grassley-Cruz did was increase funding for school safety by $300 million. The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety. You know, if that had been in place that might well have meant that another armed police officer could have been in Parkland and could have stopped that killer before he murdered those teenagers."