GOP rhetoric just bit them in the ass

Last year Ted Cruz said the following:

"The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn't for just protecting hunting rights, and it's not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny -- for the protection of liberty," Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line "2nd Amendment against tyranny."

I guess his statement only applies to white folk. While there is no way to condone what happened in Dallas yesterday, it was exactly what the GOP and the NRA have been preaching for years. Did it never, ever, occur to them that someone might actually decide that someone other than a white man might just decide that they needed to use the 'ultimate check'?

The full article, and copies of his fund raising letters saying this at:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ted-cruz-second-amendment-government-tyranny

Note to moderator: Sorry if this is considered 'guns' rather than 'politics'. If this is the wrong forum let me know and I will post it elsewhere.