The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb slams 'political cowardice' of pro-Second Amendment lawmakers and claims they're making the Texas shooting political, not Democrats.
The New Yorker's Jelani Cobb published a piece slamming gun-rights supporting Americans who claim they don’t want to politicize mass shootings. He wrote that they are the ones politicizing the issue by supporting gun rights.pro-Second Amendment AmericansNew Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb wrote that Second Amendment are the ones politicizing the issue by supporting the gun rights that make mass shootings possible.
He described"a carnival of violence that confirmed, among other things, the political cowardice of a large portion of our elected leadership, the thin pretense of our moral credibility, and the sham of public displays of sympathy that translate into no actual changes in our laws, our culture, or our murderous propensities."
"Wayne LaPierre, the C.E.O. of the National Rifle Association, said, ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ The idea of vigilant protectors subduing armed antagonists spoke to a vision of a society in which firearms are as commonplace as cell phones, and where more guns mean more safety," Cobb wrote.Cobb continued, citing researchers who claim that a more broadly armed public does not make life safer.
He then bolstered his claim by saying Texas’s permissive gun laws"did not prevent the Uvalde carnage any more than previous legislation allowing easier access to guns prevented the 2019 shooting that killed twenty-three people at an El Paso Walmart," and other earlier shootings. Mentioning how Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, a Republican,"accused [O’Rourke] of making the shooting ‘a political issue,’" Cobb wrote,"O’Rourke did not politicize the shooting. The circumstances that make a mass murder of fourth graders possible are inherently political. The legal access to the weaponry involved is political. The most visible people refusing to see these things as political happen to be elected to political office.
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