OMG! Ted Cruz Didn’t Buy A Gun for Home Defense Until He Was 42! OMG!

By Robert Farago

“In an autobiography published last year, [Texas Senator Ted] Cruz recounts how after he moved to Austin in 2003 to serve as the state’s appointed solicitor general, he became concerned about leaving his wife Heidi at home alone while he traveled,” the AP reports [via usnews.com]. “The couple had previously lived in Washington, where each had jobs in the administration of President George W. Bush.” Here’s the relevant bit from Cruz’s book . . .

Worried that an intruder might come through the window, I placed a hatchet beneath our bed, and started to tell her to grab the hatchet if anything happened. As I was saying this, it struck me … this was stupid. Heidi is five-foot-two. The last thing I wanted was for my beautiful, petite wife to be trying to swing a hatchet at a large, menacing robber coming through the window.

So Senator Cruz bought his beloved a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver for a bedside gun — at the age of 42. And? And it appears that the Smith was Mr. Cruz’s first self-defense firearm. It may be his first ever firearm. And? And that means he’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns