By Charles C. W. Cooke
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Matthew Miller says:
All for increasing security for
SCOTUS justices if the facts warrant it, but doing so in response to an
unsuccessful threat while failing to take any real action after 19 children are
murdered would sure send a message about who matters and who doesn't.
This might sound good to the uninitiated, but it doesn’t
actually make any sense. The guy who attempted to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh
was stopped by an armed law-enforcement officer and a locked door. Republicans
have come out in support of both of those measures as means by which to take
“action” to harden America’s schools. President Biden has opposed them. If anyone here is for “increasing
security” in one case but not the other, it’s Biden.
Which raises the question of what Miller means by “real
action.” He can’t mean that Republicans are in favor of gun control when it
comes to Justice Kavanaugh, but opposed to it when it comes to school children.
They’re not. So what does he want? The guy who was caught outside Kavanaugh’s
house had a handgun that he had bought in California. Does
Miller believe that even California-compliant firearms — bought under the
strictest purchase rules in the country — should be illegal? If so, that’s his
prerogative, and should he say so clearly. But he’ll find Republicans
consistent in their response to the idea: “No.”
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