Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Texas Senator Ted Cruz defiantly signalled to anti-Second Amendment campaigners that he intends to fight off efforts to impinge on rights in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting last week.

Speaking at the NRA conference in Houston this past weekend, Cruz stated "It's far easier to slander one's political adversaries and to demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights than it is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable acts of evil."

"It's far less comfortable to ask why despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America," he further urged, adding that "the elites who dominate our culture" are intent on pushing the idea that "firearms lie at the root of the problem."