'Keep our name out of your mouth': Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ripped Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas over his opposition to gun legislation reform after he claimed such laws don't work, pointing to gun violence in Chicago
Washington Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ripped Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over his opposition to gun legislation reform after he claimed such laws don't work, pointing to gun violence in Chicago.
Lightfoot, a Democrat, claimed in a tweet that 60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside of Illinois,"mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation.""Keep our name out of your mouth," Lightfoot wrote in a message directed at the Republican senator.
Why is Trump all over the place on gun control? 06:18Earlier this month, Lightfoot slammed Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, for"misleading" tweets about recent gun violence in Chicago, assailing the senior White House adviser for getting several facts wrong.Cruz on Tuesday agreed to sit down next week with actor and activist Alyssa Milano about"uniting to stop gun violence," he wrote in a tweet.
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