“What inevitably stops these horrific crimes: Armed good guys stopping armed bad guys.”
Ted Cruz
Senator (R-Tex.). in a speech to the National Rifle Association. Claim dated 31 May 2022.
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Ted Cruz (Senator (R-Tex.)) made this claim around 31 May 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 January 2023, 245 days later. Its rating was “Data Inconclusive”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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