Sen. John Cornyn of Texas has a long political career. Among the many things he's done while in office is his work shepherding the Bipartisan Safer Community Act's passage through the Senate.
Unsurprisingly, there are Texans who are less than thrilled by that.
In fact, it's pretty clear they want Cornyn to not even make it to the general election in his re-election bid, and they want President Donald Trump to help.
Saying that U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has “betrayed the trust” of Lone Star State gun owners, a Texas gun rights group is asking President Donald Trump not to endorse the longtime senator for re-election.
The organization Texas Gun Rights (TGR) last week penned a letter to President Trump in which it aired its grievances over what it believes to be Sen. Cornyn’s lack of support for the Second Amendment.
“Dear President Trump, We, the members and supporters of Texas Gun Rights, write to you as dedicated defenders of the Second Amendment,” the letter stated. “We urge you in the strongest terms not to endorse Senator John Cornyn in his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate.”
The organization further stated that Sen. Cornyn has repeatedly betrayed the trust of gun owners in Texas and across the country.
“His authorship of the ‘Fix NICS’ gun control deal in 2017 flooded the federal ‘prohibited persons’ list with millions of Americans—including veterans—without due process,” the letter stated. “Worse, he was the lead Republican architect of the Biden-Cornyn Gun Control Bill—the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA)—which Joe Biden himself celebrated as the most significant gun control legislation in 30 years.”
Former President Joe Biden later used the BSCA as cover to institute a number of executive actions limiting gun rights.
Honestly, the BSCA is more than enough reason to see Cornyn bounced from office, and based on what we're seeing out of the Trump administration on guns, it's entirely possible he'll listen.
Cornyn did betray gun owners in Texas.
Yeah, Uvalde had a lot of people rattled, but there was nothing in the BSCA that remotely addressed what happened in that case. It wasn't remotely about Uvalde. It was just giving the anti-gunners what they've always wanted.
Moreover, it set the stage for future demands by them.
See, Cornyn just undermined our arguments that we want to stop these things, but don't think gun control works. He clearly does, and backed measures that curtail the right of people to keep and bear arms.
We simply cannot trust him to protect those rights.
He's way too open to passing legislation in the wake of terrible events for anyone's comfort. That means he's got to go.
If President Trump is serious about protecting our gun rights--and everything I've seen from him suggests it, at least so far--then he has to throw Cornyn under the bus and help elect a real pro-gun voice in Texas.
I don't see the Lone Star State voting for a Democrat in that seat unless the primary winner turns out to be a functional moron or gets caught with a dead girl, live boy, or something worse.
I mean, we got Ted Cruz from this state, so I'd like to think they can give us someone worth celebrating.
Then again, there is the argument for the devil you know versus the devil you don't, which might have some people back Cornyn even though he's not to be trusted on gun rights.
Hopefully, those folks are in the minority.
Cornyn needs to go. It needs to be a signal to other ostensibly pro-gun lawmakers that we expect them to actually be pro-gun.
Maybe we can talk Brandon Herrera into running for the Senate? A guntuber would be a nice change of pace from the career politician that takes a dump on our rights on a regular basis.
