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Beto O’Rourke riding gun confiscation back into relevancy
Washington Examiner ^ | 09-17-19 | Emily Larsen

Posted on 09/17/2019 7:36:36 AM PDT by Monrose72

Beto O’Rourke is ratcheting up his new emphasis on confiscating assault-style weapons and is taking a looser, more aggressive campaign style in order to push himself back into relevancy, even if it creates a liability for other Democrats. “Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47, we’re not going to allow it to be used on fellow Americans anymore,” O’Rourke, 46, said during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston. The candidate, mired in the low single digits, frequently cites the early August mass shooting that left 22 dead in El Paso, his hometown.

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1 posted on 09/17/2019 7:36:36 AM PDT by Monrose72
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2 posted on 09/17/2019 7:38:14 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Monrose72
push himself back into relevancy, even if it creates a liability for other Democrats.

dontcha just love the me, me, me generation.

3 posted on 09/17/2019 7:39:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Beta Boy was never relevant.


4 posted on 09/17/2019 7:41:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Not to worry. We want this nitwit right out there, front and center. One thing for certain, the democRAT Party is a rabid collection of loons and morons.


5 posted on 09/17/2019 7:42:32 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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“...we’re not going to allow it to be used on fellow Americans anymore,”

Maybe one more...


6 posted on 09/17/2019 7:45:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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The difference this time is Trump won’t FORGET what they said before they lurch towards the middle RIGHT AFTER they win the primary.

No R had the guts before this.

He does.

“You said back in September...” :)


7 posted on 09/17/2019 7:47:01 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: Monrose72

Orourke’s brash promise actually solidifies a phalanx of opposition: conservatives, libertarians, states, counties, police and sheriffs deoartments, military personnel.


8 posted on 09/17/2019 7:47:26 AM PDT by lurk
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Beto has stated publicly what we have known since 1962, that gun registration is merely a precursor to gun confiscation.

The Democrats have been screaming for gun registration and bans since 1962.
1962-Call for Handgun registration ONLY! Rifles will not be affected.
1963-Call for registration of All guns and a ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles!
1968-Got a ban on small foreign handguns and 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1971 Call for Ban on small American handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1975 Call for Ban on all handguns. “Rifles will not be affected!”
1981 Actress Lee Grant on ABC’s GMA yells...
“The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!”
1984 Call for ban on semi-auto rifles.
1994 Ten year “ban” on “a-s-s-ault rifles”.
2000 Call to ban single shot .50 cal rifles.

Rest assured if they get a ban on semi-auto rifles, they will be back for more, and more and more.


9 posted on 09/17/2019 7:48:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Maybe one more...

Yeah - they need one more to clinch the deal, to push the bedwetters over the edge.

A loon (white, of course) with an AR in a high school, perhaps, in Texas...

10 posted on 09/17/2019 7:50:30 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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What happened when the Brits try to take away our guns the first time at Lexington on 19 April, 1775?

Thomas Jefferson, “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

SECOND AMENDMENT

Right to Bear Arms

Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. The first 10 amendments form the Bill of Rights:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.


11 posted on 09/17/2019 7:51:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Howie66

One thing for certain, the democRAT Party is a rabid collection of loons and morons.

Some are just better at hiding it than others!!!


12 posted on 09/17/2019 7:54:06 AM PDT by BobinIL
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Peyote writ large apparently with these “reporters”. That might ‘splain this article.


13 posted on 09/17/2019 7:56:37 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Monrose72

Keep it up and he’ll be a force in getting Trump re-elected.


14 posted on 09/17/2019 7:57:14 AM PDT by bgill
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I am going to just put this on every Beto thread so people can begin to understand what is up with Beto.

Beto is on the Autism Spectrum.

People on the spectrum frequently perform repetitive physical acts as a means to calm themselves. It is called “Stimming” as in “stimulating.”

Some examples are clapping, holding something that they tap repeatedly, or even striking themselves.

A person on the Autism Spectrum (nowadays frequentlyreferred to as “The Spectrum,” may increase the pace of their Stimming under stress. It is a caring thing for many if them.

Watch Beto when he talks....he bounces and shakes his right hand up and down at the elbow non-stop.

He does it faster when he gets excited but he does it non-stop all the time. He probably has calves the size 25 lbs weightlifting plates from all the bpuncingnhe does.

Watch for it once and you won’t be able to get it out of your mind whenever you see him stimming.


15 posted on 09/17/2019 8:00:41 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama' DOJ was slaping on all those police agencies.)
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Yeah, apparently for all his bluster, foolishness, and ill-conceived drivel on "gun control" he's now "relevant" again... He's climbed 0.2% in the polls, now tied for 6th place with Yang --- at a whopping 3.0%. Woo-hoo.

I guess that's what counts as "relevant" to the leftists. After all, they do seem to like to pander to fringe groups.

The only useful thing he's done is publicly voice the real desires of the leftists - firearms confiscation. For that, for publicly showing the lie of "no-one is coming for your guns" the other 'rats / leftists hate him.

16 posted on 09/17/2019 8:04:24 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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WATTA RELIEF (cackle): Beto’s “relevant” again.

He’s climbed 0.2% in the polls just on gun confiscation alone...

......now tied for 6th place with Nowhere Yang -— at a whopping 3.0%.


17 posted on 09/17/2019 8:08:08 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; thenever other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. conclusive)
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To: Monrose72

Soy Puto Boy strikes again. Maybe one day he will get what he deserves for his sedition and treason against our God given and natural human right to self protection against all enemies; domestic and foreign. He’s obviously a domestic enemy and should be viewed as such. I wonder if he will get what previous traitors got. To dance on the end of a rope in the public square all legal and legit like.

Interesting how the dems went from just annoying to full Communist/Nazi in such a short amount of time.

Thank you President Trump for getting these no-good heathens to expose themselves to the whole world and in such a dramatic fashion. Long live the President!


18 posted on 09/17/2019 8:08:12 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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Remember the Alamo (and forget this Beto crap)


19 posted on 09/17/2019 8:09:08 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: dp0622

Best thing about Trump is he takes the fight to them and points out issues the sniveling RINO’s would rather forget about.

I am sick and tired of the Coward Party(GOP) who refuses to not only fight for us but actually tries to fight our own(I am looking right at you Milktoast RINOmney).


20 posted on 09/17/2019 8:11:56 AM PDT by MachIV
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