Republican threatens Beto O’Rourke over gun confiscation pledge
Democratic presidential hopeful Former Texas Representative Beto O’Rourke gestures during the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season on Thursday (Robyn BECK)
Washington (AFP) – A Republican lawmaker from Texas issued a barely veiled threat against Beto O’Rourke after the Democrat presidential hopeful said he would seize assault rifles behind many mass shootings in the country.
“My AR is ready for you, Robert Francis,” Texas state legislator Briscoe Cain tweeted after O’Rourke’s pledge in the Democratic presidential debate late Thursday, using O’Rourke’s given name.
Asked in the debate if he is for confiscating assault weapons — one of which was used to kill 22 people at a Walmart store in his home town of El Paso, Texas on August 3 — O’Rourke replied:
“I am, if it’s a weapon that was designed to kill people on the battlefield.”
“When we see that being used against children… Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”
After Cain’s tweet, O’Rourke doubled down on his plan.
“This is a death threat, Representative. Clearly, you shouldn’t own an AR-15—and neither should anyone else,” he said on Twitter.
The exchange lit up the US gun debate online, as Democrats generally call for more controls but only O’Rourke has gone so far as to back taking away the millions of assault rifles in private hands.
Cain’s tweet was later taken down by Twitter as a violation of its rules on making threats.
Gun owners say the Constitution absolutely protects their right to possess firearms, but O’Rourke and others want to limit that right to certain categories.
Congress is expected to weigh new controls in the wake of a series of mass shootings in the last two months, two of them in Texas, that stunned the nation.
Disclaimer: Validity of the above story is for 7 Days from original date of publishing. Source: AFP.
Not only is baito uninformed on firearms generally, he doesn’t know the difference between a death threat and a life threat. Brisco Cain’s comment wasn’t a death threat. It was a promise to protect himself from an aggressive pencil-necked politician who would come to his home and abuse him and his family. If anyone should be arraigned, indicted and tried, it’s the ignoramus poking holes in the air with his finger every day.
Let’s face facts. First, baito doesn’t know the difference between an “assault weapon” and a semi-automatic sporting rifle, e.g., AR-15. Secondly, he cannot define “assault weapon” as a term or even describe how its function is different from any other semi-automatic sporting rifle.
He’s never seen an assault weapon “in our streets” because they’ve been severely restricted since 1934. He’s never even seen a semi-automatic sporting rifle “in our streets” because the infinitesimal few that are used in crimes are never revealed until the crime occurs. And peaceable, lawful owners keep them in their homes.
Seems he’s just another party liar reading his lines. He’s completely oblivious to the fact that gun control is working precisely as planned. Intimidation has dissuaded peaceable, lawful owners from carrying firearms. The result is adult on-site reprisal never changes — NOBODY RETURNS FIRE!!
And democrat reaction never changes — GRAB THE GUNS, GRAB THE GUNS!! We all should ask, WHAT GUNS?!! Nobody there had any. I’d also ask whom they hope to disarm. The victims invariably were rendered defenseless by their own elected misanthropic morons like baito.
Baito majored in English literature and fled from a DUI but was detained by a news reporter. He burglarized a college. Worked as a manny. Failed as a musician. Sweats a lot. Fidgets. Skateboards. He uses incredibly vile language in public but doesn’t seem able to read even one constitutional amendment. He’s a democrat and wants to be president anyway. What a guy.