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Beto O’Rourke: We’ll Use Fines to ‘Compel’ Compliance with AR-15 Ban
Breitbart ^ | 16 September 2019 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 09/16/2019 7:27:06 PM PDT by KC_Lion

Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Robert “Beto” O’Rourke explained he plans to use fines to “compel” American gun owners to comply with his AR-15 ban, during a weekend exchange with reporters.

O’Rourke made his claim in a video posted by Fox4 DFW’s Teresa Riley.

He was asked how he plans to make Americans comply with his AR-15 ban and he said, “I begin by saying we expect our fellow Americans to follow the law. If they do not there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law.”

Question: what happens if people don’t sell their guns back to the govt....answer: pic.twitter.com/wGuXJlBZQG— Teresa Riley (@TeresaRFox4) September 15, 2019

O’Rourke went to talk about the example of Australia, citing how that country put in place a similar ban. He claimed Australia witnessed, “a near 50 percent reduction in gun violence deaths” as a result. But O’Rourke did not mention that rifles are not a statistically significant contributor to overall gun deaths in the U.S.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; ar15; banglist; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; bobfrank; irishbob; orourke; robertfrancis
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To: KC_Lion

This jackass really wants a shooting war, doesn’t he?


21 posted on 09/16/2019 7:51:06 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: KC_Lion

Remind gun owners that even if another Democrat is elected, Beeto can be named to a cabinet post where he can implement his gun-grabbing.


22 posted on 09/16/2019 7:51:49 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: KC_Lion

Before Butto’s version of the rules and laws take effect, he and the democrats will have taken down the U.S. Constitution and our bill-of-rights. It’s the ONLY way for him and democrats to do what they wish to get done.

IOW, ain’t ever gonna happen.


23 posted on 09/16/2019 7:53:29 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Dexter Morgan

“Today it’s a fine for non-compliance. Tomorrow it’s prison.l

I’ll take Liberty or Death for $2,000 Alex.


24 posted on 09/16/2019 7:53:54 PM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: NFHale

Yup.
We aren’t voting our way out of this.


25 posted on 09/16/2019 7:54:39 PM PDT by Crazieman (Civil war is near certain now.)
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To: KC_Lion
Sometimes, lately, it almost seems as if Beto is a Manchurian "Trumpian" candidate...
26 posted on 09/16/2019 7:57:01 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: KC_Lion
"Gun deaths" is Owellian word manipulation.

The suicide rate went up, dropped, stayed the same.

The homicide rate did not change its trend line, which was down.

Accidents were such a tiny number as to be indeterminate.

Australia's overall homicide rate did not drop as much, over the period since the draconian gun law, as the U.S. did. The U.S. almost doubled the number of guns in the country, and quintupled, at least, the number of people who could legally conceal carry in the U.S.

27 posted on 09/16/2019 7:57:33 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: KC_Lion; All
Beto is doing us all a great favor, simply by being honest.

We should encourage him.

28 posted on 09/16/2019 7:59:35 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: KC_Lion

re: “Beto O’Rourke: We’ll Use Fines to ‘Compel’ Compliance with AR-15 Ban “

So ....... this is preceded by a -—wait for it—— national registry?


29 posted on 09/16/2019 7:59:49 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or ANY laws libtards don’t want to follow.


30 posted on 09/16/2019 7:59:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: KC_Lion

Laws opposed to the constitution are by default, illegal and null and void. Anyone trying this would be doing so under color of law, acting falsely and illegally and i would treat them as such.


31 posted on 09/16/2019 8:01:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Crazieman

“...We aren’t voting our way out of this....”

No... I didn’t think we would be.

But if those dogs get turned loose, then so be it.


32 posted on 09/16/2019 8:03:13 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: KC_Lion
I may be off base and if so, I am sure someone will set me straight. But, as I read the Constitution several points stand out.

First: The guns in question are currently legally owned property.

Second: Under the 5th amendment, no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Third: Life, liberty, and property are given equal treatment under the amendment and enactment of a general law requiring or prohibiting something does not, of itself, satisfy the requirement for due process, especially when the action is opposed by the individual. Is the government prepared to give individual notice, hearing (or trial), and subsequent appeals to millions of property owners prior to taking the weapons?

Fourth: If due process is satisfied, then the final step would be to establish just compensation for each weapon. This would have to take into consideration many factors such as age and condition. Current eminent domain procedure or something similar would need to be followed.

33 posted on 09/16/2019 8:14:55 PM PDT by etcb
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To: adorno

They put an ineligible British subject/Kenyan national in the White House in direct violation of the Constitution.
They can make semi autos illegal.
They can’t get them all.
We’ll make more.


34 posted on 09/16/2019 8:16:57 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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To: KC_Lion

How about fines for every lie by a lying Congressperson,
or for each lying MSM anchor or reporter,
and for any fascist or Terroristophile in Congress?

How about $100,000,000.00 each?

Taxes could be lowered for the rest.


35 posted on 09/16/2019 8:17:14 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: KC_Lion

My guns are sanctuary guns. I don’t need to pay no steenking fines.


36 posted on 09/16/2019 8:20:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

Undocumented firearms are the best kind.


37 posted on 09/16/2019 8:31:56 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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To: KC_Lion

[[begin by saying we expect our fellow Americans to follow the law. ]]

We do follow the inalienable right law!


38 posted on 09/16/2019 8:32:01 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: KC_Lion

Molon Labe!


39 posted on 09/16/2019 8:47:12 PM PDT by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Beto has spilled the beans, again & again & again. No mere slip of the tongue. Confiscation, confiscation, confiscation.

If Beto were to get his lights punched out, it wouldn’t be a MAGA hat wearing NRA member AR-15 owner. It’ll be an enraged Chuckie Schumer yelling “You stupid s***!!! You queered the whole f***ing deal we almost got Trump to sign off on!! You f***king rookie!! Leave gun grabbing to me and veterans like Dianne Feinstein!!”

This just in: PDJT woke up & smelled the coffee & there won’t be no steenking deals on Red Flag or UBC’s. He wants to be reelected and we want that, too.

Even so, I’m going to inventory my stash. Can always use more .45 ACP. Dang that stuff goes in a hurry.


40 posted on 09/16/2019 8:49:28 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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