Alyssa Milano Schooled by Ted Cruz on Bible, Constitution as They Debate ‘God-Given Gun Rights’
American actress and liberal activist Alyssa Milano has recently announced an initiative to create a fund that she believes will help Democrats win the 2020 presidential election in key swing states.
Senator for Texas Ted Cruz has bashed actress and anti-gun activist Alyssa Milano on Twitter after she asked whether anyone could ācite [in] which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun?ā
Milano’s initial tweet was addressed to Republican Texas State Representative Matt Schaefer, who argued that he was āNOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texansā and that ānone of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a person with evil intentā.
Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun? This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby. #NoRA https://t.co/PxVV1RoV2Z
ā Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) September 1, 2019
While the actress accused Schaefer of being āunbelievable and clearly owned by the gun lobbyā, she got a long and detailed response from Senator Ted Cruz, who argued that Milano had an āexcellentā question about the Bible and cited several passages from the book in order to illustrate that there are indeed some lines to prove his point.
Cruz started by saying that it was āof course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-give but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right to life is the right to DEFEND your life & your family”.
āThe right to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bibleā, the senator continued, citing Exodus 22:2, where it is stated that āIf a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshedā.
Ted Cruz ā @tedcruz
1/x An excellent Q, worth considering carefully w/o the snark of Twitter. It is of course not the right to a modern-day firearm that is God-give but rather the right to Life & the right to Liberty. Essential to that right to life is the right to DEFEND your life & your family.Ā
2/x The right to self-defense is recognized repeatedly in the Bible, eg Exodus 22:2: āIf a thief is caught breaking in at night & is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed.ā (Note, though, verse 3 says it IS murder if during daylight (ie, not self-defense).
The Texas senator also noted that while all men are āendowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happinessā, the Second Amendment provides that āthe right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringedā, which āwasnāt to protect peopleās ability to hunt, or to shoot target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their familiesā.
3/x The Declaration of Independence acknowledges our rights thusly: āWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.ā
4/x And, for that reason, the Second Amendment provides āthe right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL NOT be infringed.ā It wasnāt to protect peopleās ability to hunt, or to shoot target practice, but to defend their lives, their homes & their families.
āIn a 10-tweet-reply, the politician also cited the story of Stephen Willeford, who risked his life while trying to stop the shooter during the Sutherland Spring church massacre in 2017 and referred to the disarmament of African-Americans as an attempt to strip them of their right to āself-defense from violenceā.
5/x Stephen Willeford exercised that fundamental right when he risked his own life to stop the Sutherland Springs murderer, saving countless others as a result.
6/x St. George Tucker, one of the most important scholars in early America, explained the reasons behind the Second Amendment as follows: āThis may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. . . . The right of self defence is the first law of nature….ā
7/x ā…in most govts it has been the study of rulers to confine this right w/in the narrowest limits possible. Wherever…the right…to keep & bear arms is, under any…pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.ā
8/x Thatās also why, post Civil War, disarming Black Americans was a critical objective of the KKK, and was memorialized in countless Jim Crow lawsāto strip African-Americans of their God-given right to self-defense from violence.
Cruz finished by saying that as a Texan, he believes that what happened in Odessa was āsick, deranged and horrifyingā and that violent criminals with mental illness should be stopped ābefore they murderā, arguing that he is currently leading the fight in the Senate against these tragedies. The senator concluded the thread by stating that Democratās urge to confiscate guns will not āprevent mass-murdersā, but rather āweaken our self-defenseā.
9/x Iām a Texan. What happened in Midland-Odessaāand El Paso, Santa Fe & Sutherland Springsāwas sick, deranged & horrifying. We need to do MUCH more to stop violent criminals & those w/ dangerous mental illness BEFORE they murder & Iām leading the fight in the Senate to do so.
10/x Playing politics w/ these deranged crimesāand trying to use them as an excuse to violate the constl rights of law-abiding citizensāwonāt make anybody safer. Forcible gun confiscation (as some 2020 Dems urge) wonāt prevent mass-murders. But it would weaken our self-defense.
Milano responded to him briefly by saying that she would ālove to come in and meetā with the politician to discuss life issues ā including the pursuit of happiness ā and offered Cruz to have a joint ālive-streamā session so that the American people could hear his ābullshit 1st handā.
āMany netizens supported Cruz by arguing that it was ānone of [your] businessā to discuss āwhat arms we haveā and also by asking whether the actress could show āwhere in the Bible itās okay to murder babiesā, referring to the liberal activist’sĀ pro-abortion stance.
Rosalie Nospin ā @RosalieNospin
Could Alyssa Milano show where in the Bible itās okay to murder babies!
Ah, Pussy.
We don’t know gun from rifle, all we know is God give us the right to Project our Almighty Dick, just don’t use it the motherfucking Epstein’s pedo way.