Beto Goes to Kent State, Argues Only the Government Can Be Trusted With Guns

Reason ^ | 9/27/19 | Eric Boehm

[cann]

Of all the places to argue that only the government should be trusted with guns, Beto O'Rourke picked…Kent State University.

Kent State is, of course, the location of the infamous 1970 shooting that left four students dead and nine others injured. The shots were fired not by private citizens but by members of the Ohio National Guard, who shot at a crowd protesting America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Invoking armed agents of the state gunning down unarmed civilians is an interesting way to argue that Americans would be better off if the government forcefully disarmed private citizens. But hey, I guess that's why we keep being told Beto's an "unconventional" candidate.

[Deplorable American1776]

Robert Francis O'Rourke is funny... He is not trying to be but perfect ticket -- Biden/O'Rourke...

As a comedy team... 😋

[Rusty0604]

Lol

[Kozak]

It will have to be a coloring book.

[I want the USA back]

I do not trust the government with guns. When they blast you into smithereens, they are not held accountable. The government doesn’t prosecute itself, and you cannot sue it without its permission. The Second Amendment does not guarantee government the right to have guns.

[null and void]

Not unless the government can past a background check, if then...

[A_Former_Democrat]

He’ll go back to masturbating to homosexual porn

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

[Psalm 73]

1787 – Revolutionary War veterans staged a tax revolt , and armed troops (the precursor to the Massachusetts National Guard) were sent to quell the revolt. Four US citizens were killed and 20 wounded when troops opened fire.

1890 – American soldiers (7th Calvary Regiment), attacked Native Americans at Wounded Knee, South Dakota - leaving more than 250 dead.

1932 – American soldiers under command of Douglas MacArthur clashed with WWI veterans and their families protesting in Washington DC – resulting in over 100 US citizens wounded.

1970 – American soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War – leaving four US citizens dead.

1992 – Federal officers (FBI, US Marshalls), assaulted a compound in Ruby Ridge, Idaho– two US citizens were killed and two wounded.

1993 – Federal officers (FBI, BATF), assaulted a church compound in Waco, Texas – 75 US citizens were killed.

[Bonemaker]

“...Invoking armed agents of the state gunning down unarmed civilians..”

In this case the government was correct. Should have been more of it in those years. Better examples where government was wrong was Ruby Ridge and Waco.

[chris37]

Ha.

Ha.

Ha, ha, ha.

[VietVet876]

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming...We’re finally on our own...The summer I hear the drumming...

[aspasia]

itinerant preacher

[gathersnomoss]

Robert, you can’t be that stupid.

[catnipman]

"Beto Goes to Kent State"

and the picture shows he attracted a YUGE crowd: almost two dozen ... btw, that's an awesome staged pic, what with the hay bale, pumpkins and little plant, plus of course the couple dozen professionally manufactured signs handed out before the pic ...

[Luke21]

The idiots still shouted and screamed for him.

[gathersnomoss]

WACO: Bill & Janet’s Human Roast.
These murderous Communists (lite) do not screw around.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Poor choices for Beto. Glad he will never be president of anything.

[chrisser]

Irony is the Dems using a what appears to be a slightly modified bullseye as their logo.

[ealgeone]

They also did for Stalin, Castro and you know who.

[Flaming Conservative]

Question is, how were his words received by students? I hear they’re pretty clueless, themselves.