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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Legend Calls Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's Suggested Solutions To Uvalde School Shooting "Idiocy"
The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school this past Tuesday (May 24) left many heartbroken and outraged including John Legend who aimed his rage toward Sen. Ted Cruz and called out his idiocy in response to the unfathomable tragedy.
In a series of tweets, the Get Lifted crooner wrote, Dear God. The idiocy. No gun reform. Just door reform from Ted Cruz, captioned above a video of a press conference held by Cruz on Wednesday (May 25) in which Cruz suggested that the senseless crime could have been prevented if the back door to Robb Elementary School had been locked.
When the senator later added that we need to act by hardening school security and hiring armed police officers to keep our kids safe, the father of two also had words for the NRA. Evil nonsense. The answer for the NRA and its toadies like Ted is ALWAYS that we need MORE guns. Theyd rather harden our schools than deal with the problem. We already have the most guns in the world, Legend wrote. The NRA represents gun manufacturers. They need you to buy more guns. Their answer will continue to be to ratchet up the civilian arms race. So much blood is on their hands [
] F**k the NRA.
Circling back to Cruz, Legend expressed, I cant imagine why any Texan would want this slimy coward representing such a proud state. Texas has over 3,100 gun-related deaths per year and Cruz, specifically, has received over $176,000 in campaign contributions from the NRA.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/john-legend-calls-texas-sen-213342580.html
Diamond_Dog
(31,977 posts)Surrounded by barbed wire, watchtowers, and patrolled by SWAT teams. Its ludicrous.
And, its against fire code to have every door locked.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)make it so bad no one will want to send their kids there.
Then it's private religious schools to the rescue for a big fee and no unions.