Cornyn Unveils RESPONSE Act To Prevent Mass Shootings

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced on Wednesday his legislative response to this summer’s shootings in El Paso and Dayton; a sweeping and broad bill called the RESPONSE Act that would give new investigative tools to law enforcement, increase funding for state-run mental health systems, as well as giving incentives to school districts around the country to keep tabs on the online activity of students considered to be a risk to student safety. The bill does not contain any sort of outright gun control provisions like universal background checks or “red flag” laws, so of course gun control supporters already hate it.

After taking over $210,000 from the gun lobby, refusing to denounce gun violence and white supremacy in the direct aftermath of the El Paso shooting, and taking money from the NRA directly between the El Paso and Midland-Odessa tragedies, it’s no surprise that John Cornyn would introduce a bill that doesn’t include expanding background checks or reducing the amount of weapons of war on our streets,” Texas Democratic Party spokesman Abhi Rahman said. “Texans deserve real solutions to solve our gun violence epidemic—not half measures that are meant purely to score political points.”

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