Mitch McConnell Shockingly Sells out His Constituents and the Rest of the GOP and Supports Gun Control Legislation – Opinion

Press reports claim that Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has decided, out of political cowardice and ego, to support a set of gun control measures which seem to be designed to cause more harm than good, if they actually do any.

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell says he’s “comfortable” with the bipartisan gun control framework that includes funding for states to impose red flag laws.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 14, 2022

For more details on what is in the bill, please read my post Today’s Senate ‘Bipartisan Gun Safety’ Proposal Is Just as Bad as You Feared It Would Be. Although the proposal is not a David Hogg-style nutbaggery, it does have some positive aspects. It is actually quite dangerous. The idiot “Red Flag” laws encouraged by this “bipartisan framework” are an invitation to abuse. Tying mental health clinics to schools and gun control tell you the focus of these clinics will be creating the “evidence” necessary for a “Red Flag” order or to become part of the “enhanced background check” for a citizen under 21 seeking to buy a weapon.

In one of those magical years when all the GOP has to do is shut up and do nothing to win–the Democrats had one of those in 2006 where they ran on the “we’re not Bush” platform–McConnell is leading the GOP into a civil war with its voters. The only reason I can think that he’s doing this is that he’s convinced “doing something” is required to win the votes of white, suburban, college-educated women and that his own voters have nowhere else to go.

This episode of the Vichy Files contains no lesson to be taken. McConnell has been teasing conservative voters for many decades. In fact, if abortion is any guide, we’ll soon see fundraising emails from McConnell and the clowns who support this “bipartisan framework” begging for our hard-earned money to help them save gun rights.