Police Groups Call Beto O’Rourke’s Confiscation Plans ‘Ridiculous’

By Tactical Life

Beto O’Rourke just keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper. Now he’s earned the criticism of several national police groups. After recent comments where O’Rourke admitted he would need law enforcement officers going door-to-door to implement his confiscation plan, police groups pushed back, calling it “ridiculous” and “asinine.”

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“Mr. O’Rourke may not be aware that state and local police officers receive their orders from their local jurisdictions – not from the Federal government,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police, reported freebeacon.com. “Further, any such legislation, if it passed, would no doubt be vigorously litigated with a view to its apparent inconsistency with the Second Amendment.

“In view of the foregoing, and in view of Mr. O’Rourke’s current standing in the polls, we do not view this as an issue we will have to grapple within the foreseeable future,” he added.

While the FOP clearly threw shade on O’Rourke’s viability as a candidate, others pointed out the presidential hopeful’s lack of understanding law enforcement in general.

“I think he’s seriously misjudging the law enforcement response to what he wants to do,” said AJ …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life