'Given the recurring tragedies and resultant decline in gun rights support, Republican politicians may soon face a reckoning over their stance as they continue seeking election.'
Republican politicians who take absolute positions on three issues — abortion, gun control and election denial — are turning off voters. This is the one of three opinion pieces, each exploring one issue that has made Republicans vulnerable.
People are also reading… Support for absolutism is eroding, even as Republican politicians cling to it, exemplified in Tennessee U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett’s comment after the March 27 Nashville school shooting that killed six.Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, where mass shootings in the towns of Uvalde, Cleveland and Allen have stunned the nation, said no gun law changes were planned.
“For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.” The fallout included accusations of authoritarianism, racism and backlash votes in Nashville and Memphis to return the evictees to their rightful seats.
In Arizona, no such shenanigans have occurred. Rather, Republican legislators have bulldozed bills allowing people with permits to carry loaded guns on college campuses and other school grounds; legalizing silencers; barring cities from prohibiting gun shows; banning banks from not doing business with firearms entities; and requiring public schools to provide firearm safety training.
That statement, in turn, highlights the absolutism of the gun lobby and the never-ending task of opposing its and the current Supreme Court’s Wild West interpretation of the Second Amendment.
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