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Beto O’Rourke: If You Like Your AR-15, You Can Keep It*(Video)
Texas ScoreCard ^ | April 10, 2018 | Cary Cheshire

Posted on 09/13/2019 2:48:30 PM PDT by Jayster

In an interview at SXSW last month, US Senate hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke kicked off his campaign by doing something most Texas Democrats have been loath to do: line out his opposition to the Second Amendment and advocate that Texans should be prohibited from purchasing the most popular firearm in the United States. “There is no reason an AR-15, a weapon of war designed for the sole purpose of taking lives as effectively and as efficiently and [in] as great a number as possible should be sold to civilians to be used in our schools, in our churches, in our concerts, in public life in this country,” said O’Rourke. “I have no idea how that polls, and I could give a s*** what the NRA thinks about it because it’s the right thing to do,” he added. Though O’Rourke’s campaign has publicly eschewed polling and consultants, someone must have told him how much of a loser his position is with Texas voters. And recently he’s begun obfuscating his position on the issue.

On Monday, O’Rourke told Chad Hasty of Lubbock’s KFYO that if Texans owned an AR-15 they should be allowed to keep it. “We support the Second Amendment, if you own a gun keep that gun. No one wants to take it away from you, at least I don’t,” said O’Rourke. Sounds awfully familiar doesn’t it? It should.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; ar15; banglist; beto; bobblehead; bobfrank; guns; nra; secondamendment
Here is a link to the video where Beto says that you can keep your AR-15 when he was running for US Senate.

https://youtu.be/_2bjoThy4Ug

1 posted on 09/13/2019 2:48:30 PM PDT by Jayster
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2 posted on 09/13/2019 2:58:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Robert Francis eats tacos with a fork...


3 posted on 09/13/2019 3:00:04 PM PDT by Gman
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If we actually had a independent objective press they would school him on all the wrong shiite he stated.


4 posted on 09/13/2019 3:00:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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What happened the first time our rulers tried take our guns away from us?

“I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence …

I think that upon the whole it has been about one half the number lost by them, in some instances more, but in others less. This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778


5 posted on 09/13/2019 3:03:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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How do you know a Democrat running for President is lying?

His/Her lips are moving.

6 posted on 09/13/2019 3:04:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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and I could give a s*** what the NRA thinks about it...

If he COULD give a s..., then that means he cares.

Can’t even get that right.

Papa in law must be dying.


7 posted on 09/13/2019 3:04:10 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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Precisely as Nelson “Pete” Shields said he would confiscate handguns.

From 1976.

Nelson T. ‘Pete’ Shields
Founder of Handgun Control, Inc.

“I’m convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest.

Of course, it’s true that politicians will then go home and say, ‘This is a great law. The problem is solved.’ And it’s also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time.

So then we’ll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time.

My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — TOTALLY ILLEGAL.”

-Pete Shields, Chairman and founder, Handgun Control Inc., “A Reporter At Large: Handguns,” The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58

“Yes, I’m for an outright ban [on handguns].”

-Pete Shields, Chairman emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc., 60 Minutes interview

HCI, now THE BRADY CENTER, around 1984, made a grab for the semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and missed! They showed their hand. But now gun owners know they are up against a stacked deck.
If they get a ban on semi-auto rifles rest assured they will be back for the handguns, and anything else they suddenly want to ban.


8 posted on 09/13/2019 3:10:38 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Commies and leftists and Dems 2019 vintage lie like a rug.....and be aware they want and will steal our freedoms.


9 posted on 09/13/2019 3:20:48 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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With his need to run for the presidency and his now wanting to disarm “the people”, I wonder which cartel group is either giving money or blackmailing him.


10 posted on 09/13/2019 3:28:56 PM PDT by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals... get fed up with people sometimes.)
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When anyone starts the “There is no reason anyone should own an assault rifle” argument, I give the ‘T’ hand signal for “time out”. Then say, “Yes there is... To kill politicians...when they become tyrants...their standing armies...(then I lean in close)... And their supporters”. Freaks ‘em out every time. “I finish with “Make no mistake, I will kill you when you come for my guns, are you willing to die trying?”


11 posted on 09/13/2019 3:29:15 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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Gee, that’s nice. Texans can keep their AR-15’s...but what about Oklahomans, Louisianians, Mississippians, New Yorkers.....???????????


12 posted on 09/13/2019 3:37:38 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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It’s Irish Bob not some hispanic phony baloney.

He is however a Beta Male


13 posted on 09/13/2019 3:39:19 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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“Freak’em Out!”


14 posted on 09/13/2019 5:24:13 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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“Beto O’Rourke: If You Like Your AR-15, You Can Keep It*

And I won’t -— in your mouth. Faggot.


15 posted on 09/13/2019 5:29:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Now that the cat is out of the bag, we can deal with the Democratic party agenda.


16 posted on 09/13/2019 11:14:12 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

"If you don't like your two-faced forked-tongue flip-flopping liar, you don't have to vote him back in."

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17 posted on 09/15/2019 3:28:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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