Last month, Gun Owners of America blasted Texas Senator John Cornyn for playing footsie with the usual gun grabbers. (And not for the first time.) There have been a lot of pieces on why red flag laws (part of Cornyn’s pander) are unconstitutional garbage, to pick just one bad idea from the still nebulous proposal.
Given that, it’s no surprise that Cornyn was booed at last week’s Texas GOP convention.
Before he could get a word out, the boos descended upon Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) during his speech at the Texas GOP convention.
After getting up to the podium, about a minute and a half went by before Cornyn could even begin his speech. The crowd’s objections were a direct response to the role Cornyn is playing in the U.S. Senate in bartering a gun reform bill pushed in the wake of the Uvalde shooting.
Cornyn knew full well he was walking into the lion’s den, stating, “I will not approve any restrictions for law-abiding gun owners, and that’s my red line. And despite what some of you may have heard, that’s what our plan does.”
Citing conservative lodestar William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review, Cornyn added, “Someone needs to stand athwart history, yelling stop.”
Each time he repeated this formula, the crowd returned fire, yelling “Stop!” at Cornyn.
The senior Texas senator did receive some applause when touting Trump-appointed judges and pro-life legislation, and when criticizing critical race theory and rising crime rates.
Right after Cornyn left the stage, Attorney General Ken Paxton took the stage and delivered a tacit shot at the senator — with whom he has sparred before.
“We have some Republicans who are trying to run from the fight (to preserve gun rights), and we need to remember their names next time they’re on the ballot,” Paxton warned. Earlier this month, Paxton said Texas “will be the first to sue” if the federal government passes a gun bill that “infringes on our Second Amendment Rights.”
Here’s some video to judge for yourself:
If it’s just a matter of “enforcing existing laws” as Cornyn states, why isn’t he holding hearings on why the Biden Administration refuses to enforce those laws? Why cooperate with the party that seeks complete civilian disarmament rather than actually stopping criminals?
Says Michael Quinn Sullivan: “The senator seemed stunned by the response, clearly not expecting grassroots activists to understand what he had been pushing in Washington with the Democrats.”
The longer Cornyn has been in office the squishier he’s gotten (a sadly familiar pattern), not only on gun control but also illegal alien amnesty. He’s gone from “pretty reliable conservative” to someone whose feet you have to hold to the fire to keep from drifting left on the latest burst of media hot air, and the latest chorus of boos shows that Republican activists know it.
The imperfect status quo in gun laws is vastly preferable to any “reform” the current congress is likely to cook up.
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I was there as a delegate and proudly joined in the booing of that traitorous git. If he cannot remember who brung him to the dance, it may be time for him to sit it out.
It looks like the gun deal is back on track. Texans need to pepper Bad John Cornyn’s office with calls expressing their displeasure.
Can we get more details – maybe a writeup? – on the “not enforcing the current laws” aspect? I’ve heard it said many times, and I’m confident it’s true, but I’m ignorant of the details.
@Howard,
You must be… Special. Really special, to have to have this explained to you and documented.
Go look at the Chicago court dockets. How many prosecutions are there for all the varied and sundry “gun crimes” that accompany the gang-banging? Close to zero.
Go look at the investigations and prosecutions initiated after the CHAZ and CHOP fiascoes in Seattle. Oh, that’s right… There aren’t any. Despite there being recent laws made through Initiative 1639, and voluminous video evidence of weapons being handed out from the back of a protected class individual’s trunk. Not to mention, another protected class “victim” shot to death with (most likely… No investigation, so no real proof…) those same weapons handed out to the “security” for those insurrections.
They have the laws and the tools to go after the people committing crimes with guns. They hardly ever actually use them. That assclown in LA that killed the two cops? George Gascon chose not to pursue “enhancements” because he used guns in his previous crimes. If you actually bother to read the news, rather than have some quasi-literate well-coifed jackanapes read it to you, you would have ample knowledge of this fact set.
You’d have to be willfully blind not to note these things. It hardly requires research; you merely have to bother reading past the lede in most “news” pieces.
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Wow. I ask for details – admitting my own ignorance and openness to learning – and this is the response.
I guess that’s one way to persuade people. Good luck with that.
Some things are so obvious that a request for “details” is tantamount to a denial that it’s happening. Which is how I took your post.
You have to have been living in a haze of obliviousness not to have noted the lack of firearms charges against criminals in notorious cases. Case in point? The egregious firearms-related crimes by one Hunter Biden…
Hell, look at any cases in your local area. Armed robbers are rarely charged with firearms violations. The guy that just killed those cops in LA was never charged with any firearms crimes, and George Gascon just went on record defending that decision.
It’s hard not to react badly to questions like yours, to be honest. I have difficulty believing that anyone who could form the question in the first place would be unable to work out the details by themselves, with a simple search of their local court proceedings and news stories. All you have to do is look, and read past the lede.