{"id":68051,"date":"2021-05-17T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68051"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:33:34","slug":"68051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68051","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2021\/05\/17\/cornyn-flirts-background-checks-n45251\">Report: John Cornyn Seeking \u2018Compromise Language\u2019 for Democrat Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking \u201ccompromise language\u201d for Democrat gun control, the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/nra-gun-control-debate\/2021\/05\/15\/30b7cf04-b475-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On April 20, 2021, Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2021\/04\/20\/politico-john-cornyn-willing-find-common-ground-gun-control\/\">pointed<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Politico\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0claim that Cornyn was talking gun control behind the scenes with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT).<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn was having \u201cquiet conversations\u201d with Murphy for the purposes of \u201c[finding] common ground,\u201d\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/20\/chris-murphy-gun-control-483343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">indicated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On May 16, 2021, the\u00a0<em>Post\u00a0<\/em>observed that Cornyn\u2019s talks with Murphy are ongoing, saying, \u201cSome Republicans, including Cornyn, have said they generally favor background checks and have been actively talking with Murphy about compromise language that would not go as far as the House versions but could close some loopholes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn admitted the talks were taking place, but suggested no middle ground has yet to be found. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing right now to say other than we are still talking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy is currently pushing universal background check legislation in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colorado has universal background checks, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/26\/boulder-gunman-passed-background-check-acquired-firearm-at-retail-outlet\/\">they did not prevent<\/a>\u00a0the March 22, 2021, Boulder, Colorado, attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York has universal background checks as well, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/16\/11-people-shot-in-8-hours-in-mayor-bill-de-blasios-nyc\/\">they did not prevent<\/a>\u00a011 people from being shot in New York City during an 8-hour window of time on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>California adopted universal background checks in the early 1990s, but they did not prevent the April 2, 2012, Oikos University Attack\/Oakland, California (7 killed); the May 23, 2014, Santa Barbara attack (6 killed); the December 2, 2015, San Bernardino attack (14 killed);\u00a0the June 14, 2017, San Francisco UPS shooting (3 killed); and the November 7, 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/08\/thousand-oaks-shooting-ian-long-used-legally-purchased-45-caliber-handgun\/\">Thousand Oaks attack<\/a>\u00a0(12 killed), among other attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: John Cornyn Seeking \u2018Compromise Language\u2019 for Democrat Gun Control Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is still seeking \u201ccompromise language\u201d for Democrat gun control, the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reported. On April 20, 2021, Breitbart News\u00a0pointed\u00a0to\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0claim that Cornyn was talking gun control behind the scenes with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT). Cornyn was having \u201cquiet conversations\u201d with Murphy for the purposes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-deceit","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68052,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68051\/revisions\/68052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}