{"id":1499711,"date":"2022-06-01T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499711"},"modified":"2022-06-01T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:29:46","slug":"bipartisan-compromise-on-gun-control-means-gop-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-compromise-on-gun-control-means-gop-capitulation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBipartisan Compromise\u201d on Gun Control Means GOP Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbipartisan-compromise-on-gun-control-means-gop-capitulation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democrats and the corporate media like to call it a \u201ccompromise\u201d when they get exactly what they want and Republicans get nothing. Just witness the bipartisan talks underway in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on new gun control legislation.<\/p>\n<p>These talks, which reportedly involve four GOP senators led by Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, are focusing on two new gun control proposals: universal background checks and red flag laws. Whatever one\u2019s opinion about the merits of these policies, it\u2019s a fact that Democrats have long wanted to make it harder for law-abiding Americans to purchase guns and easier for the government to take them away.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these proposals would do just that, while arguably doing almost nothing to prevent the sort of mass shooting we saw last week in Uvalde.\u00a0\u00a0One of the policy ideas, so-called \u201cuniversal background checks,\u201d isn\u2019t a policy so much as a slogan meant to convey an inchoate desire that bad guys not be allowed to buy guns. <\/p>\n<p>As nearly every gun owner in America knows, almost every gun sold in this country already comes with a background check, which is already required under federal law. As my colleague David Harsanyi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/31\/democrats-are-fooling-themselves-on-guns\/\">noted yesterday<\/a>, lying on your background check or evading it with a straw purchase are already illegal under federal law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other idea, a national red-flag law, would empower judges and police to confiscate guns from Americans who have not been charged with, nor committed, any crime at all. What\u2019s more, a person judged guilty of pre-crime under a red-flag law cannot appeal the decision until\u00a0<em>after<\/em>\u00a0his or her guns have been confiscated. <\/p>\n<p>Nineteen states already have some version of red-flag law already on the books, some worse than others, and all relatively new. New York has one, but it didn\u2019t stop the Buffalo shooter from obtaining the guns he used to kill 10 people at grocery store last month. (He also passed a federal background check.)<\/p>\n<p>So much for the policies themselves. The point here is not that they are good or bad ideas but that they are the sort of things Democrats have wanted to do for a long time and haven\u2019t been able to because Republicans have blocked them. <\/p>\n<p>Why have Republicans blocked them? Because too many Republican voters understand that the purpose of such laws is to erode the Second Amendment and eventually take guns from law-abiding Americans who pose no risk of danger to anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now we have these bipartisan talks underway. Reporting on the talks, The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/30\/us\/politics\/senate-guns-democracy.html\">repeatedly framed them<\/a> as efforts to strike a \u201cdeal\u201d or a \u201ccompromise,\u201d noting, for example, how projected GOP gains in the midterms \u201ccould inform how willing Republicans will be in the coming days to compromise on gun rights, an issue that has become central to their party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there is in fact no compromise on the table. A compromise is when both parties give up something to get something else. That\u2019s not happening here. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren\u2019t talking about how they\u2019re willing to, say, get rid of gun-free zones in schools and colleges that receive federal funding in exchange for Republican support for a national red-flag law. That would be a compromise or a deal, and it would no doubt enrage the base of either party, especially the Democrats\u2019 radical left wing, which is why it\u2019s very unlikely to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening here is that some Republicans, including Sens. Cornyn and Lindsay Graham, among others, are mulling over whether and when they will cave to pressure from the media and their Democrat colleagues and simply give them what they want without getting anything in return.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, there is no \u201cdeal\u201d in the works here, there is only Republican capitulation. That\u2019s something conservatives, at least, should be well familiar with by now. Republicans in Washington have been capitulating to Democrats and the media for decades, on nearly every conceivable issue.<\/p>\n<p>We should not be surprised that they are doing it again, but we should at least be honest about what\u2019s happening and not pretend that Cornyn and Graham and the others are cooking up some kind of genius compromise on gun control. If they were, that really would be news.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and the corporate media like to call it a \u201ccompromise\u201d when they get exactly what they want and Republicans get nothing. 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