With Time Running Out, Beto Has To Go Big Or Go Home

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Dear Beto O’Rourke,

I’ve been telling you now for months that you needed to think bigger when it came to gun control. Forget the idea of banning the most commonly sold firearms in the country and demanding that people hand over millions of legally acquired firearms, while also claiming that you support the 2nd Amendment in any way. Quit fooling around and just adopt the logical position based on your gun control proposals: full repeal of the 2nd Amendment.

He could say something like “it’s time to quit pussyfooting around this issue. We need to save lives and we need to do it fast. Just as the 13th Amendment repealed the institution of slavery that inflicted misery on millions of Americans held in bondage, we need a 28th Amendment that would repeal another institution inflicting misery on untold millions today: civilian gun ownership.”

You didn’t take my advice back then, Beto, and it may be too late now. You haven’t released your fundraising figures for the third quarter, and so far you haven’t qualified to take part in the November 20th debate. Clearly your call for banning semi-automatic firearms and instituting a compensated confiscation scheme didn’t bring the …Read the Rest

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