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Ted Cruz: “In 2025, approximately 5,912 murders were recorded in the…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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And let's put that in specific numbers. If you look at January through October of 2025, and you compare it to the same time period in 2024, In 2025, approximately 5,912 murders were recorded in the U.S. [from January to October]. in that same time period in 2024, 7369 murders were recorded. In other words, there are about 1400 people, 1,400 people alive who were not murdered because of common sense … (03:19–03:27)

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