‘One of the most corrosive aspects of the Left’s cynical campaign to destroy the filibuster has been to normalize the idea that proper governance always relies on simple majorities. But no free nation on earth, and certainly not the United States, does this. We know Murphy is aware of this fact, since he and Democrats participated in over 300 filibusters during the Trump years, and they never once groused about the filibuster’s supposed illiberal nature. And not once in those 300-plus votes, incidentally, did Republicans “have the votes.”’
Never one to let a tragedy go to waste, Second Amendment antagonist Senator Chris Murphy proposed that the Senate grant unanimous consent on a House gun-control bill (H.R. 8), citing the recent school shooting in Michigan. “I want to tell you why I’m making this request,” he explained on the Senate floor. “I understand the low likelihood of success, but I hope many of my colleagues took a minute to watch the cellphone video from the school shooting in Michigan.”
The cellphone video of the Michigan shooting is gut-wrenching, but Republicans shouldn’t be guilt-tripped into supporting “universal” background checks that have absolutely nothing to do with school shootings. The shooter at Oxford High School, who killed four students and wounded seven others, obtained his gun from his irresponsible father, who passed a background check. Any person who buys a gun from a gun-show dealer must pass a background check. Straw purchases are illegal. Giving a gun to a criminal is illegal. Giving a gun to someone you know is a danger to himself or others is a crime. Giving a gun to child is illegal.
And the shooter’s parents have been charged (or, perhaps, overcharged) with a slew of crimes.
