` :::Maverick, read my user page. I'm in fact a conservative Republican. I'm not biased. Also, if you want me to calm it down, then how about this? In April 2015, Cruz told a group of gun owners in New Hampshire that he had been ``pressing`` fellow Republican Senator John McCain to hold hearings on whether service members should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on military bases.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-second-amendment-gun-rights-117133.html McCain responded to Cruz's assertion, saying that neither he nor his staff had heard anything from Cruz about the issue.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/john-mccain-mocks-ted-cruz-claim-on-guns-117165.htmlhttp://thehill.com/policy/defense/239462-mccain-mocks-cruz-over-guns-on-military-bases-claim Cruz later admitted that he ``misspoke`` about the issue, and that he had not in fact talked to McCain about it.http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-military-members-guns-corrects-117186.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/politics/john-mccain-ted-cruz-gun-hearings/ :::Looks neutral to me.   `