Guns but not votes: Republican fealty to the constitution is completely one-eyed | Lloyd Green

When Republicans want to make it tougher to vote than to purchase a gun, something is definitely off-kilter

On Monday, a lone gunman killed 10 at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket. Last week, a 21-year-old man killed eight in an Atlanta massage parlor. Faced with calls for heightened background checks on gun sales, Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming's junior senator, draped herself in the flag, and lashed out at proponents of gun control as essentially un-American.

In her words, every time that there's an incident like this, the people who don't want to protect the second amendment use it as an excuse to further erode second amendment rights." To be sure, Lummis's fealty to freedom and the constitution is selective at best, and she's far from alone.