ENDORSED: Cruz promotes Second Amendment rights as response to mass killings.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz offered a staunch defense of Second Amendment rights on the presidential campaign trail in South Carolina.

Cruz dropped his G’s and appeared to adopt a heavier southern twang in an appearance with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy for a town hall in Greenville on Monday.

Scott playfully ribbed Cruz for his education at schools such as Harvard and Princeton, but the senator’s elocution appeared aimed at a deep southern audience.

“Have you noticed that just about every one of these shootings happens in a gun-free zone?” Cruz said. “Ain’t nothin’ bad guys like better than a bunch of unarmed victims.”

True.