I’m not thrilled with what we’re getting out of the Big, Beautiful Bill by any stretch. It’s arguably a move forward, but it’s not even a step in that direction. Maybe a slight shuffle. At most.
But the debate surrounding those gun rights provisions provided a lot of fodder for people like me.
It seems that one voice I’d missed decided to beclown himself in attacking pro-gun Republicans. Why? Because he thinks he has them in a gotcha on the issue.
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., America’s first and only Gen Z member of Congress, caused quite the stir during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, where he called out what he sees as hypocrisy among Republicans who claim to be “pro-life” but won’t seriously address the nation’s gun violence.
While debating an amendment to restore a gun rights provision of President Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” during a House Rules Committee hearing, Frost called out his Republican colleagues for saying their care about the life of children as a moral issue when it comes to abortion, but not when it comes to gun violence.
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Frost, who began his political career almost exclusively to end gun violence and its impact on American youth, attended Tuesday’s hearing as a witness. When asked about the gun violence epidemic that has left tens of thousands dead each year, Frost did not mince his words.
“They have no problems with more people dying, as long as they can sell more guns,” said the 28-year-old Florida congressman, who accused Republicans and the National Rifle Association of prioritizing the needs of gun manufacturers and not everyday citizens impacted by gun violence.
Frost added, “It’s despicable that the gun industry, the gun lobby, wants to push forth amendments like this that would result in more people dying.”
Yeah, we’ve heard this before. It’s not that different than what that college student in Maine had to endure. People who don’t believe in something seem to think they’ve got a better grasp of the subject than the people who do.
It’s always like that, which is funny because studies show that people on the right tend to understand the left’s argument better than vice versa.
Anyway, the reason Frost looks ridiculous here is for a number of reasons.
First, abortion and guns aren’t remotely similar issues.
No one is allowed to kill a child with a gun. Pro-life advocates, however, take issue with the law allowing someone to kill a baby in the mother’s womb. Therein lies the difference.
Killing a kid with a firearm is an unlawful act, and people go to prison for that, as they should.
That’s the first thing.
The second is that guns are used to save lives all the time. People like Frost routinely ignore that fact. If your argument for abortion is that it can save some women’s lives in certain situations–something many people who generally oppose abortion have little issue with–then you can’t just pretend guns have never saved lives. In fact, guns save more lives than they’re used to take, even if you lump in all the suicides as people like Frost tend to do.
So the ignoring of this little tidbit is asinine to the overall point.
Further, this is once again predicated on people like Frost thinking that secretly, we all agree with them that gun control works, and we’re just not going to support it because we’re bad people. This seems to be the typical “thinking” in anti-gun circles, and it’s downright hilarious to a degree, in part because despite having spilled thousands of gallons of digital ink about how and why it doesn’t, they all fail to even look at anything we’ve said and recognized that we actually mean it.
Considering this is the same guy who tried to push the term “zombie gun” for things that aren’t actually guns, we shouldn’t expect any signs of intelligent life from him ever.
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