Beto Now Attacking Fellow Democrats On Gun Issue

By Cam Edwards

Beto O’Rourke has already ticked off Democrats on Capitol Hill with his repeated endorsements of gun confiscation, including telling Chris Cuomo on CNN Wednesday evening that he will confiscate “AR-15’s and AK-47’s”, which he labeled “weapons designed for use on a military battlefield”. Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Delaware’s Chris Coons are a just a couple of the Democrats in Washington expressing frustration with Beto’s full-throated calls for gun confiscation while they’re trying to hammer out an agreement with Republicans to expand some background checks.

Now Beto’s calling his fellow Democrats “complicit” in the nation’s violent crime problem. While speaking to Cuomo, O’Rourke argued that while Republicans are awful on gun control, his fellow Democrats aren’t much better.

“I mean, the Republicans are the most obstinate and the most obstructionist and the most in the pockets of the NRA, but it’s been a bipartisan problem that the Centers for Disease Control couldn’t even study gun violence, that here we are in 2019 and we still don’t have universal background checks or ‘red flag’ laws or we allowed the assault weapons ban to expire, even though it did so much good and saved so many lives,” the …Read the Rest

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