A grocery store shooting in Boulder, Colorado, left ten people dead Monday, less than a week after a gunman in Atlanta went on a shooting rampage in three spas, killing eight people. President Joe Biden is considering a series of executive orders that would enforce stricter gun control.
Andrea Cabral, former Massachusetts secretary of public safety and sheriff of Suffolk County, spoke to Boston Public Radio on Thursday about whether Congress will ever pass legislation in support of gun control regulations.
"You can unequivocally say that it will absolutely never happen if GOP votes are necessary to it happening," she said. "They're sort of gleefully accepting of mass murder and weapons of war being in the hands of regular people in an unregulated way."
The Supreme Court will meet on Friday to decide if it will consider the scope of the Second Amendment in its next term, Cabral noted. The case up for consideration is New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett, which asks whether the government can prohibit citizens from carrying handguns outside the home. It would be the first major gun case to come before the court with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett added to its ranks.
"The presumption now is that [the Supreme Court] will not vote based on law or logic, but that they will vote on ideology," Cabral said. "I just wanted to comment on what a sad and terrifying state of affairs that is."
Cabral is the former Massachusetts secretary of public safety and sheriff of Suffolk County. She is currently CEO of the cannabis company Ascend.
