“Pro-life” GOPers care more about keeping their seats than dead 10 year olds
There is nothing on earth worth leading and possibly losing their seats over:
The calculation behind Republicans’ steadfast opposition to any new gun regulations — even in the face of the kind of unthinkable massacre that occurred Tuesday at an elementary school in Texas — is a fairly simple one for Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
Asked Wednesday what the reaction would be from voters back home if he were to support any significant form of gun control, the first-term Republican had a straightforward answer: “Most would probably throw me out of office,” he said.
That guy is a cretin so he often blurts out the truth. His voters would throw him out of office. He’s a coward — and they are nihilist sociopaths.
His response helps explain why Republicans have resisted proposals such as the one for universal background checks for gun buyers, despite remarkably broad support from the public for such plans — support that can reach up to 90 percent nationwide in some cases.
The reality is that that 90 percent figure probably includes some Republicans who are open to new laws, but would not clamor for them or punish a lawmaker for failing to back them, and the 10 percent opposed reflect the sentiments of the G.O.P. base, which decides primary contests and is zealous in its devotion to gun rights.
Most Republicans in the Senate represent deeply conservative states where gun ownership is treated as a sacred privilege enshrined in the Constitution, a privilege not to be infringed upon no matter how much blood is spilled in classrooms and school hallways around the country.
“We don’t want to take away the rights of law-abiding citizens,” said Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican, explaining why members of his party have no interest in imposing new regulations on gun purchases, even after the murder of 19 children and two teachers, the latest in a seemingly unending series of shooting massacres in the United States.
It seems to me that law-abiding citizens ought to be willing to undergo background checks and only use guns that are not exclusively designed to mow down massive numbers of human beings. What kind of law-abiding citizen needs one of those? For fun? To show off to their friends? Why?
We know why. Many of these people are nihilists. After all, we just watched these same people refuse to wear masks and get vaccinated in the face of a deadly virus and now we have over a million dead which is hundreds of thousands more than needed to die. They are fine with massive gun violence because it makes them feel good to have weapons of war — for fun.
If these right wingers want to talk about mental health maybe they should take a look in the mirror.