lobbying organization, the nra, that these things that will drive your outcomes, then why would you not try to encourage more of these outcomes? the spillover effects are horrific, we are allowing kids, 18 year old kids, to go buy a gun that they should not have two days after they turn 18. they can t even buy a handgun, but they combine ar-15, they can buy 30 round magazines. this is what we need to do drive business? i m sorry, but have we know sole? there is also the fact that guns are very well made. and unlike many consumer products in my by, particularly this days, my last six months, break. it s a little like carbon molecules in the air, they just accumulate. they don t go anywhere. they stay in working order, so when you sell when you talk about, kind of
and he injured 23 more. now after that, texas republicans did what that paper would predict that they did. they passed a number of new laws making guns more accessible, loosening protection on guns, including legislation that allows texans to carry a handgun without a license and one that would order the state to ignore federal gun control laws. and the republican governor, greg abbott, signed the legislation into law, flanked by members of the national rifle association. that is the picture right there of him signing it. so, this is the playbook for republicans. and their donors and the gun lobby. and to be honest, it s supported by many, many rank and file conservatives and gun enthusiasts, who support this view. it is not a tiny group of people. the idea and it was a fringe idea, i think, when it first started but it has now taken over the movement. you make it easier to get guns, you want there to be more guns and more access to guns in the
event, after initially signing on. cornyn says that it does not have to do with uvalde but that it is rather a scheduling conflict. crenshaw now says he will be in ukraine. but texas senator ted cruz and governor greg abbott are, as of now, planning on speaking at the event, as is ex-president donald trump, who is of course the convention s headliner. incidentally, we should note that the website for the event notes, as per the u.s. secret service, firearms and firearm accessories will not be permitted in the general assembly hall. that is odd. i mean, i get it. there s regulations, you don t want the president to be shot by some random person. but it just is the case i am not making this up that the nra s view is that the addition of guns to any given context makes that context safer. they keep telling us that more guns make it safer. so why does that not apply there? you would think that they would
celebrate. and once they are fighting to restrict, the ones that they think more people should have. two texas republicans congressman dan crenshaw and senator john cornyn are no longer appearing at the event, after initially signing on. cornyn says that it does not have to do with uvalde but that it is rather scheduling conflict. crenshaw says he will be in ukraine. but texas senator ted cruz and governor greg abbott are, as of now, planning on speaking at the event, as his ex president donald trump, who is of course the conventions headliner. incidentally, we should note that the website for the event notes, for the u.s. secret service, firearms, and firearm accessories will not be permitted in the general assembly hall. that is odd. i mean, i get it. regulations, you don t want the president to be shot by some random person. but it just is the case i am not making this up that the nra s view is that the addition of guns to any given context makes that context safer.
public opinion really is in texas? would i see is that there are a lot of folks, folks who owns gun. people who use them for sporting, at a shooting range. and perhaps they agree not with the entire range of policy solutions on common sense gun reform. but they agree with, for instance, universal background checks or red flag laws. there is a place where we can start. the problem, though, is that you have the nra creating this myth that people are going to take your guns if we go down this path. and that we are going to start a domino effect that means you will lose your gun. they have been successful at that. with they have created is a greater intensity in who shows up to vote. single issue voters on the other side of this wet has happened, i think, since columbine, and what happens, unfortunately, each time a newtown or buffalo happens, is that the intensity is going up on the other side. and so it s unfortunate that it is taking this long. but i think we are on a path to making