Senator Invoice Cassidy (R-LA) walked Monday into the far-left lair of CBS Mornings that sadly got here on the heels of the nation’s newest mass taking pictures, this time at a mall in Allen, Texas. Positive sufficient, Cassidy discovered himself repeatedly beneath hearth from the three leftist co-hosts demanding he “do one thing” to work with Democrats to finish gun violence. As for what, they couldn’t say.
Co-host Nate Burleson teased the stacked deck of a section: “Nonetheless forward, Republican Senator Invoice Cassidy will discuss with us concerning the newest mass taking pictures in America. Does he imagine there’s something Congress ought to do about this?”
Socialist co-host Tony Dokoupil began the interview by remarking the taking pictures has “renew[ed] lots of questions together with a giant one, what could be completed to finish this cycle of gun violence in America,” which led to Cassidy explaining that the bipartisan invoice in response to the Uvalde assault “has but to be absolutely carried out.”
He additional accused the Biden administration of dragging its toes in doing so to handle the three most-often “motivation[s]” of a mass taking pictures: “home violence, felony gang exercise, or somebody who’s mentally ailing.”
Dokoupil solid that apart and argued for the ever-esoteric calls for for extra background checks. Positive sufficient, Cassidy calmly pushed again and defined how, previous to the post-Uvalde invoice, these with an underage file had been sealed, conserving a lid on any potential crimson flags from that interval of their life (click on “increase”):
DOKOUPIL: [W]e had been taking a look at a Fox Information ballot earlier this morning that reveals 80 % plus help or virtually 80 % help for issues like felony background checks, shifting the age of gun purchases as much as 21, even virtually 80 % help for a 30-day ready interval. Of these points, that is Republicans — that is Republicans with help at that stage. Would you help any of these actions?
CASSIDY: Let’s have a look at what we have already got. I’d help it if it makes a distinction, maybe. Let me phrase this. Within the Uvalde response invoice, we improve the time interval for the background verify to happen. Does it must be 30 days? No. It must be lengthy sufficient to be efficient, and for many who are thought-about greater danger, we gave an extended time period for authorities to have the ability to do a background verify and it’s predicted that if this had been the case, you may have a look at the taking pictures in Charlotte — in South Carolina, I’m sorry, the one the place the person walks into the African-American church, that may have given them time to stop that. So, it isn’t the size of time, it’s the adequacy. I believe in that invoice, we improve the adequacy.
DOKOUPIL: I imply, there’s undoubtedly proof, although, that felony background checks, if common, would make a distinction. Within the states the place they’ve them, they’ve a decrease murder charge. We’ve had individuals beneath the age of 21 purchase weapons illegally, do horrible issues with them, so elevating the age might assist. I imply —
CASSIDY: However can I reply to that final phrase?
DOKOUPIL: — yeah. Positive.
CASSIDY: So once more, within the Uvalde response invoice, lots of the individuals who have purchased weapons after they had been youthful had a file after they had been an adolescent, that may have been a crimson flag. They flip 18, these data are sealed. They exit and purchase a weapon, as a result of the explanation to not allow them to purchase is now sealed. Below the Uvalde response invoice, we enable a decide to say wait a second, you’re going to unseal these. You’ll be able to have a look at these, pull them out and see whether or not or not this individual ought to or mustn’t have a weapon. So I’d argue that we tackle the state of affairs that you just introduced up, however it must be fully carried out.
Co-host, Democratic donor, and Obama household good friend Gayle King entered the a part of the dialog the place she confirmed her shallow grasp of coverage and politics, demanding to know “what could be completed proper now” as “it’s not a matter of if it may well occur to you, it virtually looks as if a matter of when” and “weapons are nonetheless the main reason behind loss of life for youngsters.”
Cassidy once more had a retort, noting “most of these deaths amongst youngsters are unintended” and he’s “sponsored laws that may give a tax credit score, that may enable dad and mom to lock up their gun.”
Dokoupil countered that it must be required, however Cassidy promptly schooled him by noting that may make gun possession one thing solely the rich might afford (given the worth of safes):
Tony, what should you’re poor? What should you’re shopping for the weapon since you’re pondering, in your interior metropolis neighborhood, anyone goes to interrupt in? That’s more and more widespread that such persons are shopping for weapons. And rapidly you’re poor, however now you’ve obtained to purchase one thing else? I believe you need to step into individuals’s lives, and once you step into their lives, it’s a little bit extra complicated than an exquisite present like this the place we are saying, effectively, what about this answer? What about that answer?
King remained flustered and even admitted one thing must be completed to make weapons tougher to personal as a result of “this has gotten uncontrolled” regardless that “I don’t even know what you could do.”
Cassidy gave one other instance of the administration’s failure to implement legal guidelines on the books in {that a} Louisiana superintendent instructed him he couldn’t acquire cash to enhance faculty safety as a result of it hadn’t been topic to a latest menace (and thus saved from being proactive on gun violence).
Burleson closed with an irrelevant level bout how one of many Allen, Texas victims was allegedly discovered “with out a face,” which might be the case with any gun in the event that they’re shot level clean or sufficient occasions. As for Cassidy, he ventured down the observe of gun confiscation, however not one of the co-hosts wished to entertain what the liberal media actually need to do (click on “increase”):
BURLESON: Senator, we perceive that there are complexities to this, and I need to keep a sure stage of sensitivity, as I ask this query, as a result of we do have victims which can be dealing and nonetheless therapeutic. However one bystander who was treating one of many victims mentioned he discovered one sufferer with out a face. And this factors to the problem of the varieties of firearms that persons are strolling into these malls with, strolling into our faculties, our church buildings and it looks as if these assault rifles are getting used an increasing number of. What are we doing about giving these weapons of struggle to individuals who shouldn’t have them?
(….)
CASSIDY [TO BURLESON]: However should you had a weapon, I’d haven’t any drawback with it. What we did is that if anyone has obtained a felony background, they usually obtained no matter weapon it’s, AR-15 or not they usually acquire it illegally, we try to go after the one that purchased it for that felony, who allowed that felony to acquire it illegally. Now we have to acknowledge that we are able to ban these weapons, however there’s hundreds of thousands already on the market and anyone who decides to acquire one illegally in all probability can. So we have to cease that unlawful transaction. We will say let’s ban them. They’re already on the market by the hundreds of thousands, so what will we do? Exit and confiscate —
KING: Do you imagine —
BURLESON: However we’ve got to do one thing.
KING: Sure, do you imagine, Senator, you’re doing all you are able to do? Do you imagine that?
CASSIDY: Oh, yeah, as I used to be mentioning, I had a dialog with Secretary Cardona. Now we have these {dollars} on the market to harden faculties. This was after Nashville.
KING: Mmhmm.
CASSIDY: And on the time, they weren’t going to launch them until there was a earlier historical past of menace at a faculty. Wait, we’re making an attempt to be forward of a menace, not react.
CBS’s pro-gun confiscation screed and cries to do one thing on weapons (regardless of solely providing esoteric proposals) had been made doable because of the backing of advertisers resembling Dr. Scholl’s and Progressive. Observe the hyperlinks to see their contact info on the MRC’s Conservatives Struggle Again web page.
To see the related transcript from Might 8, click on right here.
