Beto Says Trans Women Can Be Killed With ‘Impunity.’ Well, Arm Them!

By Tom Knighton

Right now, it’s hard to think of the name Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke and not think of gun control. The former congressman from Texas has made it a centerpiece of his campaign, a campaign that isn’t doing him a lot of favors but sure does seem to be helping gun rights advocates out quite a bit.

However, even he knows you can’t build a campaign off of a single issue, so it’s important that he find other positions on the important issues of the day.

Even if they make no sense considering his gun control stance.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke claimed during a high-energy stump speech in Iowa that he would be afraid to be a “trans woman of color, who could be killed with complete impunity in this country right now, with no one to follow up or investigate.”

O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman, has been an outspoken advocate of transgender rights since the beginning of his campaign and featured a story on his official Facebook that highlighted the deaths of four trans women in Texas, all of which were being actively investigated. Police in the report vowed to solve the cases and have also asked the FBI …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms