You may have heard that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning on stepping down as the Republican Senate leader at the end of this year.

Now, I won’t pretend that I’m a fan of McConnell. No, I’m much more of a Thomas Massie fan based on Massie’s strong pro-2A stance (see what I mean here) and his advocating of the 4th Amendment to keep the Federal government out of our business (your guns are your business, not theirs). So, you could say that I’m not unhappy that McConnell will have less influence in Congress.

It does leave a potentially giant void, though, because, if the Republicans re-take the Senate in November, the head of the Republicans in the Senate will have a lot of control over what happens there. And the American people deserve to have someone who takes the Second Amendment seriously.

And, according to one writer, at least, there is one name that’s already been thrown into the hat for that position who we really don’t want there (hat tip to here for the lead). John R. Lott, Jr. writes,

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the first to announce his campaign to replace Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Senate’s Republican leader. The race for leadership will expose a weakness of Cornyn — his lack of support for Americans’ right to self-defense. “Every time gun control gains steam in Congress, Senator John Cornyn is right there working with Democrats on a ‘compromise,’” says Aidan Johnston with Gun Owners Of America. Unfortunately, Johnston is correct.

A person like that is exactly who we don’t want in any position of authority. Ever.

Look, the United States was founded on the idea that people should be left alone by the government if those people aren’t violating the rights of others. And the areas that government is supposed to stay out of include (and, maybe, especially applies to) firearms. If we’re not using firearms to violate other people’s rights, then, the government has a duty (by oaths of office) to leave us alone.

But Cornyn, like anti-2A zealots on the other side of the aisle seems to think that the people should be subject to the government, and the American people deserve someone better than another milquetoast McConnell clone heading up Republicans in the Senate this fall.