Ted Cruz: U.S. Is One Liberal Justice Away from End of Gun Rights

By Patriot Outdoor News

On October 23, Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) observed that the U.S. is one liberal Supreme Court justice away from going after the individual right to keep and bear arms with the intent of hampering, if not abolishing, the exercise of that right.

Cruz was speaking at a campaign event in Iowa when he addressed the precarious position in which our gun rights sit.

According to the Des Moines Register, Cruz said, “One more liberal justice and our right to keep and bear arms [will be] taken away from us by an activist court.”

To be clear, Cruz is not saying the court has the ability to destroy our God-given right to keep and bear arms but is sounding the clarion call that the court will certainly remove the protections our gun rights currently enjoy if given the chance. On April 9, Breitbart News had the opportunity to talk to Cruz about Second Amendment rights, and he was crystal clear regarding the origin of gun rights and the important role they serve in defending freedom:

America was founded on a revolutionary concept. Namely, that our rights don’t come from government, they come from God …Read the Rest

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News