The accepted media narrative is that you can’t question someone’s opinions on gun control if they’ve had a bullet fly in their direction. Unless their name is Kyle Kashuv. Or Steve Scalise. Probably Ronald Reagan as well who, two years after an assassination attempt, addressed the NRA in 1983.
It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun control laws. I happen to know this from personal experience.
[The NRA lives] by Lincoln’s words: ‘Important principles may and must be inflexible.’ … The NRA believes that America’s laws were made to be obeyed, and that our constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago.
And, by the way, the Constitution does not say that government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.’