Three years ago, Roy Cooper’s veto of bills shielding girls’ sports, restoring parental authority in schools, and halting irreversible medical interventions on minors sent a clear signal about where progressive priorities lie: ideology over biology, bureaucracy over families, and state power over individual rights. That same mindset fuels the gun-control agenda Cooper now champions in his Senate bid—measures that treat law-abiding citizens as presumptive threats while ignoring the data showing armed, trained parents are the fastest deterrent to the very violence his policies claim to address. When a politician is willing to erase sex-based fairness in locker rooms and sideline moms and dads from medical decisions, it is hardly surprising he also dismisses the constitutional right to keep and bear arms as an inconvenient relic rather than the ultimate parental safeguard.
The pattern is unmistakable: every veto Cooper issued three years ago chipped away at the same foundational principle the Second Amendment protects—self-reliance and the authority of responsible adults to defend their households without waiting for government permission or protection. Parents stripped of say over their children’s sports teams or medical records are the same parents Cooper’s gun-control proposals would disarm, leaving families dependent on the very institutions that failed to stop the predators his policies enable. For the 2A community, this is not an isolated social issue; it is a preview of how a Cooper-led Senate would treat every enumerated right that stands between citizens and centralized control.
Voters weighing Cooper’s Senate run should recognize that his record is not a series of unrelated missteps but a coherent philosophy: government knows best, biology is optional, and firearms in private hands are the problem rather than the solution. The 2A community has every reason to treat that philosophy as disqualifying, because once the state claims authority over children’s bodies and erases objective standards in sports, the next logical step is claiming authority over the tools families use to protect those children.
