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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was booed during an appearance at the Texas Republican Party convention over his participation in gun reform negotiations following a slew of deadly mass shootings.
Video, posted to special media on Friday by a Houston Chronicle reporter, showed some people clapping, but they were mostly drowned out by boos and some chants as the senator closed out his remarks.
“The video doesn’t do it justice,” Axios reporter Jonathan Swan tweeted in response, citing a source in the room. “It was really bad.”
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“No red flags” and “Don’t take our guns” were among the phrases chanted, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas and a top congressional recipient of donations for the National Rifle Association, shrugged off the negative feedback he is facing as he leads the Republican side in bipartisan gun reform negations. He said the talk “has its ups and downs” and that he believes the discussions are “in a pretty good place right now,” according to the Texas Tribune.
Over the weekend, Cornyn, with nine other GOP senators, supported a framework along with Democrats that would, among other things, incentivize states to create so-called red flag laws to keep guns away from people considered a threat to the public, close the “boyfriend loophole,” and fortify the review process for gun buyers below the age of 21. The next step is to put the framework into legislation, and if the support for it holds on the GOP side, it appears there would be a veto-proof majority to pass it.
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Cornyn’s office has not yet responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment. Former President Donald Trump, during an event in Nashville on Friday, said “Democrats have lured” Cornyn and a couple of other specific GOP senators into supporting the reforms and urged conservatives lawmakers to “kill” the legislation “immediately.”
The negotiations followed a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The shooting suspect was 18 and legally purchased the AR-style rifle used in the attack, according to authorities. That shooting followed another one in Buffalo, New York, in which 10 people were killed, and prompted calls for Congress to consider more stringent gun access reforms.
