Sen. John Cornyn is, hopefully, on his way out of office after today. For a Texas Republican, he stood on the wrong side of some issues that are near and dear to the hearts of many who previously voted for him, including him playing a key role in passing Biden's gun control bill.
But some there think he deserves praise for that.
I wish I were making this up, but here's all the proof you need:
It is disturbing that some are faulting U.S. Sen. John Cornyn for supporting the smallest modification to gun restrictions.
It wasn’t long ago that 19 students and two teachers were killed in the Uvalde school shooting.
It’s not government overreach to ask Texans to accept that gun purchasers by those younger than 21 should be scrutinized a bit more closely or to restrict perpetrators of domestic violence.
To those who focus on the worst-case scenario of the government seizing all their guns, I would suggest that strengthening commonsense restrictions actually makes that less likely.
I own guns. I have no interest in preventing gun ownership.
Cornyn should be praised for finding a few small improvements in our right to be safe from gun violence.
Well, of all the takes of all time, that's certainly one of them.
First, let's understand that Cornyn isn't being blasted for trying to keep people safe from gun violence. He's being blasted because he backed gun control. Those two things aren't remotely synonymous, and I don't care if this author, Susan, thinks they are. She has a right to be wrong, but she doesn't get to demand we all play along.
Uvalde was terrible, to be sure, but when you look at the facts of what happened, there's a lot more blame to be laid at the feet of the Uvalde Police Department than ordinary gun owners, even those under 21. Most of those legal adults aren't going to do anything unlawful with their firearms, so yeah, it is an overreach to demand more scrutiny of a certain group of people. How would Susan here feel if they suddenly decided to scrutinize black gun buyers more, since they're 13 percent of the population, but more than twice that of the prison population? I certainly hope not.
And this fanciful idea that restrictions will actually prevent total confiscation is beyond moronic. We've seen the homicide rate take historic drops, and that hasn't stopped anti-gunners from pretending that they're both responsible for it and that it never happened, and we need more gun control. There's literally zero chance of them stopping. They haven't even stopped in places where guns are all but banned as it is, so why should our domestic crop of gun grabbers be any different?
Cornyn is earning scorn not because he took a small step toward public safety, but because he bent the knee to the Biden administration and foisted still more restrictions on honest Americans after we've made it pretty damn clear that we want our cake back.
Every time a supposedly pro-gun lawmaker does this, it hurts us not just in the short-term, but it also hurts by essentially implying that, yeah, we agree that the problems are the guns, and not the people who seek to hurt innocent people.
Cornyn doesn't get praise for making our lives more difficult and restricting a basic, constitutionally protected right. Especially since gun control doesn't make anyone safer.
With some good fortune, Cornyn will be spending this time tomorrow brushing up his resume and putting out some feelers to lobbying groups to see if he can get a new job because Ken Paxton is about to move into his old position.
Maybe Everytown or Giffords is hiring?
