In June, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball practice and saved, in part, by Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, who is a lesbian in a same-sex marriage. But despite his own harrowing experience—Scalise is still using walkers after suffering a shattered femur and serious damage to his hip and pelvis—the conservative Republican congressman remains pro-gun and anti-LGBTQ.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Scalise made clear that neither being shot himself nor the recent Las Vegas mass shooting could change his mind about gun rights. “Don’t try to put new laws in place that don’t fix these problems,” Scalise, the House majority whip, said. “They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.” Scalise went on to cite the Founding Fathers’ strong belief in the right to bear arms (curiously, though, no mention of the Third Amendment and their related belief that citizens should not have to quarter soldiers), and when asked by host Chuck Todd if the Second Amendment should be seen as “unlimited,” Scalise nodded: “It is.”

Scalise is similarly standing by his vehement opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights as espoused before the shooting. Despite thanking Griner in his emotional return to the House of Representatives last month—saying she and Capitol Police officer David Bailey “not only saved my life but the lives of others in the chamber” and calling the officers “part of our family”—Scalise will speak this Friday at the Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative Christian think tank that opposes LGBTQ rights and whose stated mission is to “advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.” If Scalise truly considers Griner family, this sure is a funny way of showing it.

Let Scalise’s case be a stunning answer to the many desperate questions that came after the Las Vegas massacre (and all the massacres that preceded it and those that are sure to follow): What will it take to spur Congress to come to its senses and act on gun control? Some posit that as a conservative Southern Republican and, now, a shooting victim himself, Scalise has the unique power to sway Congress—which wouldn’t budge even in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting—to move on gun control. Make that had the power.