Posted September 15, 2019 1:30 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer

Beto O’Rourke was hoping to generate headlines in Thursday night’s debate, and his “Hell yes we’re going to take away your AR-15’s” comment certainly succeeded. Beto’s been on TV quite a bit over the past couple of days to talk about his plan to ban and institute a compensated confiscation scheme to get ahold of every semi-automatic firearm he deems to be an “assault weapon”, and while reporters and anchors are starting to ask some slightly tough questions of O’Rourke, I think they’re still missing something really important.

O’Rourke believes the criminal justice system is unfair to minorities, and wants to expunge the records of individuals arrested for marijuana offenses, yet he wants to make owning the most popular rifle in America akin to owning illicit drugs.

Beto says under his plan, police aren’t going door to door to get guns, and claimed that doesn’t happen with any other law on the books. While it’s true police don’t go “door to door” to see if people are complying with laws, they do go to some doors based on investigations into violations of the law. Is Beto familiar with the term “no knock raid”, for instance? Of …Read the Rest

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