Welcome to the War, Senator Cornyn
Okay, so after Ted Cruz bet his bottom dollar that if elected Beto O’Rourke was going to outlaw barbeque in Texas. Now contending that what he said was in jest, Cruz said that if Democrats win, we’d band barbeque and make everybody eat tofu.
So John Cornyn tries to distract by going after Beto himself on the new Republican newspaper of record – Twitter.
Cornyn Twitters the not-so-new-news that O’Rourke said “I don’t think we should be selling AR-15s in this country.”
Cornyn asks, “Not for self defense?”
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, who also has a subscription to Twitter, jumps up and responds to Cornyn.
“In 32 years policing I’ve yet [to] encounter a case of a community member using an AR-15 for self-defense,” Acevedo tweeted. “I’m not saying it hasn’t happened, but I’d bet the house they’ve been used many, many times to slaughter innocent Americans as opposed to self-defense.”
Cornyn suddenly remembers that guns don’t kill people, but sometimes United States Senators use their mouths to shoot themselves in the foot.
“Chief, it isn’t the gun it is the shooter. Let’s focus on mental health, background checks and information sharing that can save lives.”
Like catching fish in a barrel …
Acevedo doubles down and Cornyn shuts up.
Acevedo says he didn’t enter the Twit-Off to defend O’Rourke, but …
“I’m weighing in as a practitioner on behalf of the people we are sworn to protect,” Acevedo said, adding that he is part of a group of 69 police chiefs from major cities advocating for gun law reforms.
Members of the Major Cities Chiefs Association have called for a new assault weapons ban and stiffer penalties for illegal guns.
So Cornyn went back to staying in his own lane and tending to his areas of expertise – Republican greed, corruption, and getting rich off the taxpayers.
Either deliberately obtuse or just simply snacilbupeR st00pid. Ignoring the wishes of 90% of the population and the expertise of LE is why the Cornyn and those like him are destined to become extinct as a political party. Missing their brains since Reagan and removing their spines in the age of Dotard45, the heartless bastards are on schedule to stop breathing.
1The Chief schools the Senator! Bravo!! Bravo!! Bravissimo!!!
2“Like catching fish in a barrel …” with a hand grenade.
3So many politicians are so very st00pid! It aint guns that kill people its people WITH GUNS that kill people!!!
4And politicians want guns all legal for only one reason…they get bribed heavily to do so!!!
Why use guns? Because it is so easy anyone can do so with little training. Try killing me with a knife, and find out how VERY hard that will be, and chances are YOU die, not me. That’s why they choose guns!
Background checks are mostly silly and meaningless.
“Let’s focus on mental health”– you mean like the mental health that your GOP party cut funding for, Senator? And how did you vote on that one?
L.Long, Washington Post had an article last weekend about knife fans getting rid of 20+ state laws restricting knife-carrying, because knives are in the holy Second Amendment too, see? Well, somewhere, right?
5My own personal headline:
Senator Cornyn Brings Dull Edged Concept to a Gun Fight
6John Cornyn. Didn’t he used to be attorney general of Texas? Why, yes. Yes, he did.
First Cornyn, then Abbott, and now Paxton. Boy, we sure can pick ‘em. No wonder our state law is such a freak show.
7Well said, Chief. America needs more law enforcement professionals to speak up the way you did.
8Look how other people drive, and tell me it’s OK for them to have guns.
9Was it Crornyn who sympathisized with the whack job who flew his small plane into the IRS headquarters in the SW pre 9/11.
10I remember one of your (texas), or could have been oklahomas own home grown whack job senators, senators getting up on the senate floor and not only expressing understanding as to why a whack job would do this but implying that if government doesn’t back off on collecting taxes that more of these “justified” incidents would occur.
AR 15 wouldn’t do much to stop a kamikaze pilot. But then again it appears that crornyn thinks that government offices and officials are legitmate targets of oppurtunity.
So has someone talked to Art Acevado about a national gig after his Chief’s gig is done? Maybe he could take Corny’s office right out from under him.
11Acevado is my newest hero. Corn-In is a jackass.
12OT, but dealing with the Texas Hispanic vote that so damned many people think is an automatic Democratic lock, it ain’t, by a long stretch.
Here’s a prime example of what I’ve been trying to tell y’all about how difficult it is going to be to turn the Hispanic voting cohort to the benefit of Democrats in Texas.
Tueday’s special election for TX Senate District 19: the Rethug, Pete Flores, in an upset win, 53-47, over Dem Pete Gallego. It was held to replace the ‘convicted of major fraud’ former officeholder, Carlos Uresti (D). Flores was backed by all the big Texas Rethug names, like Abbott, Patrick, Paxton,etc.
This was a special election for the Texas Senate, District 19, a district which is basically a subset of US House District TX-23; both generally considered to be a ‘Blue district’, WTF?
US TX-23 is a predominately Hispanic population (85%) district currently held by Will Hurd (R), running against him is Gina Ortiz-Jones (D).
Watch the video, look for the Hispanic woman enthusiastically waving the Trump sign…
Not a good sign for any Texas Democrat, including Beto.
https://www.ksat.com/news/election-results/district-19-special-runoff-election-result
13More info on a major special election TX Dem loss. The TV news just said that this district hadn’t gone Red since Reconstruction, a big flip for Team Reptaliban.
IMO, the key factor was turnout…or lack thereof. Check out some of the comments.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/18/1796796/-Texas-SD-19-results-open-thread
“Texas SD-19: This is a runoff for an open Democratic seat stretching out west from San Antonio. Carlos Uresti resigned following a bribery conviction. The candidates are former Rep. Pete Gallego on the Democratic side, and retired game warden Pete Flores on the Republican side.
This seat went 54-42 for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 55-44 for Barack Obama in 2012, and in the first round of this special election, Democratic candidates combined to win 59 percent of the vote, while Republican candidates won a total of 40 percent.”
14Donald Trump just admitted that the most important job of his presidency is getting conservative justices on the supreme court.
15That would explain his lack of caring about anything else other than his personal fortune.
16Oh, and anything that benefits Vlad the Donnie Impaler.
As opposed to defending the constitution.
17Get it?