'Ridiculous theater': Sen. Cruz's pushback on gun restrictions epitomizes high hurdles
Virtually every time there is a mass shooting in the United States, the debate quickly turns to whether this might be the one — or, in the case of the last week, the two — that will ultimately force major action on gun restrictions.
In many ways, it seems lawmakers have given up even pretending that might be the case.
The tragedies in Atlanta last week and Boulder, Colo., this week have spurred the expected and logical debate about what more can be done about making sure guns don’t find their ways into the hands of the kinds of people who committed these atrocities. And there is an attempt to have that debate.
But even those who have spurred previous efforts acknowledge it’s likely for naught, as it has long been. Combined with the structural issues and the unusually strong instant pushback from conservative senators, it doesn’t exactly lay the groundwork for something to happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/23/ridiculous-theater-cruzs-pushback-gun-restrictions-epitomizes-its-high-hurdle/
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