{"id":82366,"date":"2022-06-14T23:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82366"},"modified":"2022-06-14T23:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T04:50:57","slug":"82366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82366","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/cornyn-proves-senate-republicans-didnt-negotiate-theyre-giving-our-rights-away-for-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornyn Proves Senate Republicans Didn\u2019t Negotiate, They\u2019re Giving Our Rights Away For Nothing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the weekend announcement of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/breaking-senate-reaches-gun-control-compromise-deal-with-10-gopers-signing-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compromise framework<\/a>\u00a0for a\u00a0<a title=\"This is an affiliate ad link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ale&amp;ti=11297&amp;pri=9659&amp;pw=275597&amp;mi=16365&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwethepeopleholsters.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc,nofollow\">gun<\/a>\u00a0control deal in the Senate, Texas Senator John Cornyn apparently felt the need to address angry constituents who aren\u2019t nearly as enthusiastic as he is about expanding \u201cred flag\u201d laws, enhancing background checks for those under 21 among other points in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn partnered with Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut to negotiate and broker the deal that got nine other Republicans to sign on, greatly increasing the chances of the final bill clearing the Senate once the legislation is actually written.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one big problem with Cornyn\u2019s much-heralded achievement: his tweet proves that he wasn\u2019t even trying to actually negotiate anything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline tdi_2_ae4 td_block_template_1\">\n<div id=\"wh_17415148_1\" class=\"ads_container\">\n<div id=\"ld-13777902496068710-703\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3JlZnNyY19zZXNzaW9uIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9mZiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0Zndfc2Vuc2l0aXZlX21lZGlhX2ludGVyc3RpdGlhbF8xMzk2MyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJpbnRlcnN0aXRpYWwiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X3Jlc3VsdF9taWdyYXRpb25fMTM5NzkiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoidHdlZXRfcmVzdWx0IiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1536450216722944005&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetruthaboutguns.com%2Fcornyn-proves-senate-republicans-didnt-negotiate-theyre-giving-our-rights-away-for-nothing%2F&amp;sessionId=481211770727c2109a724262fa2123bb7af6c31d&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=b45a03c79d4c1%3A1654150928467&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1536450216722944005\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty clear what his staffers (it\u2019s doubtful he has the graphics skills or computer literacy to do that) were trying to do with yesterday\u2019s tweet \u2014 damage control. By showing us all how the deal he struck with Democrats could have been\u00a0<em>so much<\/em>\u00a0worse, he\u2019s trying to frame the agreement as a grand compromise that saved firearm owners from some of the worst that gun-grabbers had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The way Cornyn portrays it, if he and his fellow collaborators hadn\u2019t rushed in to give some ground, we\u2019d be facing\u00a0<a title=\"This is an affiliate ad link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/click.php?tt=ale&amp;ti=11297&amp;pri=15694&amp;pw=275597&amp;mi=14459&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fgunmagwarehouse.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc,nofollow\">magazine<\/a>\u00a0bans, \u201cassault weapons\u201d sales restrictions, waiting periods, safe storage mandates, and more if Democrats went ahead and scuttled the filibuster to force the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/u-s-house-gun-control-kabuki-exposes-liberals-privilege\/\">House gun control bills<\/a>\u00a0through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Then they could also pack the Supreme Court and we\u2019d really be stuck, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I know the comments section is already filling up with \u201ccome and take it\u201d and \u201cshall not be infringed\u201d declarations, but I want readers to notice something else \u2014 the things that\u00a0<em>aren\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0on Cornyn\u2019s list of rejected proposals that didn\u2019t make it into the Senate deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why doesn\u2019t that list include anything from the Republican side? Why is there no plan for a federal law to allow armed teachers nationwide? Why wasn\u2019t 50-state concealed carry reciprocity considered? How about deregulating suppressors or removing short-barreled rifles and shotguns from the NFA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surely if the Democrats really wanted \u201ccommon sense gun\u00a0control\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/senator-chris-murphy-begs-for-gun-compromise-after-texas-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as badly as they claim<\/a>, they\u2019d have stepped up and paid for it with some sort of compromise. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, what we\u2019ve really learned from Cornyn\u2019s sorry excuse at tamping down the blowback he\u2019s undoubtedly getting is that he never really negotiated with Senate Democrats at all.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn and the other GOP collaborators who agreed to the framework showed up with no demands at all of their own. They were only prepared to haggle with Democrats over how much the rest of us will give up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/senate\/3519619-how-gun-talks-are-weighing-on-cornyns-candidacy-for-senate-gop-leader\/\">so he can become<\/a>\u00a0GOP leader in the Senate some day.<\/p>\n<p>Senators like Cornyn and Romney didn\u2019t give anything up in the Senate deal. They have security details, large houses in gated communities with armed patrols, and plenty of other measures to keep them and their families safe while the rest of us rubes have to fend for ourselves like nearly everyone else who has ever walked the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Just as it\u2019s awfully easy to spend other people\u2019s money, Cornyn had no qualms about giving our rights away for his own political benefit. He never had any plan to actually negotiate for us, to get something in return in an actual compromise with Democrats. Instead, he got rolled and he couldn\u2019t be happier about it.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn\u2019s just another elitist who wants to see how we can better serve him. He won\u2019t have to face Texas voters again for four more years, by which time he\u2019s betting the folks back home will have mostly forgotten about this. Sadly, he\u2019s probably right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornyn Proves Senate Republicans Didn\u2019t Negotiate, They\u2019re Giving Our Rights Away For Nothing Following the weekend announcement of a\u00a0compromise framework\u00a0for a\u00a0gun\u00a0control deal in the Senate, Texas Senator John Cornyn apparently felt the need to address angry constituents who aren\u2019t nearly as enthusiastic as he is about expanding \u201cred flag\u201d laws, enhancing background checks for those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82366\" 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":[9,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366","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=82366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82367,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82366\/revisions\/82367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}