The bipartisan gun legislation could end up being a career definer for John Cornyn, Texas’ senior senator. He’s shown a past willingness to compromise but faces critics further to his right, including his fellow senator Ted Cruz.
“Good public policy and support for the Second Amendment are not mutually exclusive,” he said in a separate interview earlier this month.
He’s pushing for only exactly as much as he thinks he can get passed in the deeply partisan upper chamber, which is a challenge because he’ll need at least nine Senate Republicans to stay with him to break through a filibuster. But he wants more Republican senators than that, because consensus means there will be fewer political targets.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar is a Democrat who represents El Paso, where a shooter in 2019 killed 23 people and left dozens injured in a Walmart parking lot. She called the framework “extremely disappointing.” Murphy won the seat in November 2012, despite efforts by Cornyn to keep him out. At the time, Cornyn was the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a group tasked with helping defeat Democrats. Just weeks before he joined the Senate, tragedy struck Murphy’s congressional district in Newtown. A disturbed young man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and unleashed carnage, killing 26 students and teachers.
A former Texas attorney general and state supreme court justice, Cornyn assessed the evidence that showed the shooter never should have been able to purchase the firearms he used in the killing spree because he had a record for domestic abuse.
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