Beto Is a Disaster for the
Gun-Control Movement
National Review,
by
Charles C. W. Cooke
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/14/2019 4:35:24 AM
He almost certainly doesn’t realize it, but Beto O’Rourke is likely to be the worst thing to happen to the gun-control movement in decades — and, if he continues in this mode, he may turn out to be the worst thing to happen to the Democratic party in a long time, too. In Houston last night, O’Rourke abandoned his cloying euphemisms (“mandatory buybacks”) and delivered a deliberate, carefully scripted endorsement of gun confiscation, which, within minutes, his campaign began to sell on t-shirts. “Hell yes,” Beto said, “we’re going to take your AR-15.”
Thus, upon the instant, did two decades’ worth of Democratic rhetoric go up in a puff of smoke.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 9/14/2019 6:08:43 AM (No. 179385)
Don't be so hard on Beto, he's just saying what the rest of the Dems think and work for but would say out loud.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/14/2019 7:28:23 AM (No. 179420)
I didn’t watch the debates - I’d rather scrub the toilets, but did a single person on that stage contradict what Beto said? I’m guessing not.
There’s no way that Butto will be the nominee, but we need to remind everyone who is a legal gun owner, whether Republican or demonrat, that no matter who becomes the nominee, he or she wants to do the same thing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 9/14/2019 7:36:14 AM (No. 179429)
He says two decades of Dem rhetoric upon smoke--- he's wrong, it is 5 or more decades ago that they started lying, and quit their original plan to ban guns, started saying that they just want some safety rules.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bubby 9/14/2019 7:46:07 AM (No. 179437)
#2 Is right on! They will start with AR15s, then semi auto hand guns, then shotguns, then revolvers and the result would be that WTP would be disarmed. Problem is this ain’t Australia and nobody I know is going to give up any gun period! But make no mistake the Democrats and msm want us all to be unarmed like in Venezuela!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/14/2019 8:31:02 AM (No. 179492)
The biggest and only problem the other nine have with Beto is that he was indiscreet and gave away the game. Not one them has a problem with his ultimate goal - circumventing the Second Amendment so that only criminals and thug groups like Antifa will be armed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
rmsimms 9/14/2019 9:07:02 AM (No. 179541)
The Democrat model for "sensible gun safety" is the same as Nazi Germany......gun ownership will be a privilege restricted to members of the Party and people deemed "politically reliable" by the State. For everyone else possession will get you labeled an Enemy of the State and the offender will disappear into a camp.
Paramilitary groups controlled or allied to the Party Leadership.....back then the SA(Brownshirts) and now Antifa....will be issued weapons directly from military/police arsenals
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/14/2019 9:11:51 AM (No. 179551)
I sincerely doubt if Beat-O can spell AR-15. The other dems were probably dumbfounded when he gave away the entire strategy and couldn't provide cover on a moment's notice. The funniest aspect of this is that the government hands you an M-4, asks you to shoot terrorists for three or four years and then forget about what you did and what you have learned. There is power in that weapon and its civilian equivalent AR-15 and it terrifies them that the people can not be fully controlled until that power is removed. Ain't gonna happen. Those of us who learned real history in school know exactly why not.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/14/2019 9:28:46 AM (No. 179573)
Why stop there Beto? Confiscate and ban everything the left doesn't like. Go after forks which cause obesity, knives kill people and cut red meat from cows ban those, internal combustion gasoline guzzling vehicles you hate those too. Liz Warren will stop capitalism, oil production and fracking to finish us/America off.
Notice how not one of the simple minded bozos denied or backed off what the buffoon clownish idiot Beto blurted out.
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Congar 9/14/2019 10:20:25 AM (No. 179622)
Only in the Dingbat Party can such a hopelessly self absorbed jerk like Beto draw a crowd. Want to know who the mentally deficient people are? Just check out Beto’s audience.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Arby 9/14/2019 10:41:32 AM (No. 179649)
I think the amazing thing is that our system allows nonentities like Robert Francis to run for the highest office in the land and actually secure some support along the way. I can't imagine him being able to find his way to the men's room, much less to the precincts of power where adults stand ready to devour him. His sputtering presentations and his tendency to film himself getting his teeth cleaned are very scary. This man is from Texas? Who left the door open the day he was born?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VietVet68 9/14/2019 10:43:30 AM (No. 179652)
Anyone who has ever had any classes in American history, and that may not include young people who have been taught by the crop of Marxists in the education system today, will understand that the 2nd amendment exists to protect the public from politicians like Beto O'Rourke.
That he doesn't understand this tells me he's the product of Marxist indoctrination.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jobe 9/14/2019 10:46:52 AM (No. 179657)
This bozo, "Beto", and good ol' Pete whatever-the-bleep-his-name-is have to be the Moe and Curly of politics. Together they couldn't organize a one car funeral, and yet, they each believe that himself should be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It is about as funny as Val Kilmer believing that he is the REAL Batman. By the way, there is nothing wrong with gathering all of these pretenders on a stage, starting with (how many are there? Nine?), 8 chairs, playing " Me and Julio Down at the School Yard", stopping it suddenly, and expelling the one numb nut who fails to get a chair, then beginning again with the music after removing one chair. Now there are 7. What do you folks think? I'd like some feedback, if you please.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Franz 9/14/2019 10:50:59 AM (No. 179664)
The scary part is all the people who cheered when he said he would have government agents take law abiding citizens guns away from them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Connor 9/14/2019 12:03:29 PM (No. 179733)
They failed to mention that the audience went wild. Idiots.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Stegosaurus 9/14/2019 1:37:26 PM (No. 179818)
The AR-15 is NOT an "assault rifle"!!! It is NOT capable of fully automatic fire. No military in the world uses them. The Left's obsession with them is purely emotional - on its looks (but Momma said never judge a book by its cover). The popularity of the AR-15 is its ergonomics - it's very comfortable to fire. The Left will never understand this and continue with their weird fantasies about rednecks Rambo-playing.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/14/2019 2:06:20 PM (No. 179856)
The first four words in the headline says it all: Beto is a disaster.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Wary American 9/14/2019 4:34:58 PM (No. 179940)
BETzero is the DISASTER...not just gun control, but for everything that falls from those sad lips while appendages flail about without any coordination.
And just think about this people with IQs above 80: HE WAS "THEIR GUY" at one time.
Democrats today are ALL THOSE UNPICKED IN GYM...it is just that simple and that sad.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Casper27 9/14/2019 4:59:31 PM (No. 179959)
I pay no attention to this fool. Or listen to anymore of the Democrat bs. I have stopped all news in my home, including Limbaughs bs about democrat /republican which are the the same. Totally tired of it..
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