Not long ago, Beto O’Rourke came within 3 points of beating Senator Cruz. A few months later, he was running for president and feeling pretty good. Today, he is hanging in low single digits and just saying a lot of dumb things about AR-15s:
Hell yeah, we’re going to take your AR-15. If it’s a weapon that was designed to kill people on the battlefield, we’re going to buy it back.
Well, I don’t know of any army that goes to war with AR-15s. So Beto has his rifles confused. He must be talking about a real military weapon actually designed to kill people on a battlefield.
Beto has discovered a new way of moving forward. He is now promoting a t-shirt about AR-15s. I’m sure there are enough suckers out there who will wear one!
On a more serious matter, Jim Treacher is right:
Well, he can’t “buy it back” because he didn’t sell it to anybody. What he’s proposing isn’t a buy-back, it’s confiscation. But forget it, he’s rolling.
Confiscation is correct. Confiscation like what Castro did in Cuba when he took your property and called it nationalization.
Sadly, you can confiscate every AR-15 in the country, and it won’t stop mass killings. Just look south of the border, where there are very tough gun laws, but killings are at historic levels.
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