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.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 8, 2022
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.”