Posted September 16, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Beto O’Rourke has decided to hold himself up as the designated whipping boy for gun rights advocates. The man has no shot in hell of becoming president, but he’s still trying to push a radical brand of gun control that even Pete Buttigieg has called him down over.

However, O’Rourke apparently lives in a world of self-delusion. He continues to claim that gun owners are coming up to him and saying he’s right.

“Using guns to hunt or for self-defense makes a lot of sense to us here in Texas,” O’Rourke, a former three-term congressman from the state, said during an interview on MSNBC.

“But even from those Texans who own AR-15s, they’ve told me this themselves: ‘I don’t need this. I don’t need it to hunt. I don’t need it to protect myself. It was fun to use. I like taking it out to the range, but if giving this back or cutting it to pieces or selling it to the government helps to keep us safer, then by all means let’s do it,’” he said.

O’Rourke’s remarks come after the former congressman — who has pushed for a mandatory gun buyback program for assault-style weapons — …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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