Posted September 20, 2019 8:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

There are a lot of pro-gun politicians out there who it’s hard not to admire. Rep. Steve Scalise, for example, was shot by a domestic terrorist who only wanted to kill Republicans, yet his stance on guns has been resolute throughout. I can’t even imagine what he went through, yet he’s not budged a single inch on the issue.

But even Scalise’s efforts pale behind the work of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke.

That’s right, I’m putting Beto up above someone like Scalise as a hero of the Second Amendment. No, I haven’t lost my mind, either.

You see, Beto has managed to do something I didn’t think was possible. He may well have sidelined gun control this year without holding office or even being a viable candidate for office.

“Hell yeah,” he said, “we’re going to take away your AR-15.”

Not the kind of language you’d expect from a hero of the Second Amendment, as I’ve just proclaimed Beto. Yet with that one sentence, O’Rourke has upset the gun control apple cart something fierce and done so in a way the National Rifle Association could only have dreamt of.

For years, we were told that no one was coming for our guns, that no one wanted …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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