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O'Rourke calls out lawmakers after Odessa shooting: 'This is ****ed up'
The Hill ^ | 8/31/2019 | Marina Pitofsky

Posted on 08/31/2019 7:38:01 PM PDT by simpson96

After a gunman in west Texas killed five people and injured more than 20 in Midland and Odessa Saturday, White House hopeful and former Texas lawmaker Beto O’Rourke (D) said that, while the facts of the shooting have not been released by officials, “we do know this is f—ed up."

“Not sure how many gunmen. Not sure how many people have been shot. Don’t know how many people have been killed. The condition of those who have survived. Don’t know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them,” O’Rourke told a crowd of supporters during a campaign speech in Fairfax Station, Virginia.

“But we do know this is f-cked up. We do know that this has to stop in this country. There is no reason that we have to accept this as our fortune, as our future, as our fate,” he continued. (snip)

“This is not an act of God. This is not some natural disaster. This is a human-caused problem with a human solution, and, if you’re willing, we can be the humans who are going to do something about this,” O’Rourke said.

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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; betamale; beto; betoorourke; bobblehead; buildthefence; daca; dreamact; dreamers; fairfaxstation; gravedancingghoul; midland; nra; odessa; secondamendment; shooting; texas; virginia
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To: ilgipper

A lot. Basically entire cities. Beto signs everywhere I looked and was amazed when Cruz won. Texas will be California blue soon.


21 posted on 08/31/2019 7:52:55 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: Eddie01

Beto is 47. He only acts 17.


22 posted on 08/31/2019 7:53:17 PM PDT by UNGN (I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
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To: simpson96

Beto wants you to turn in your Firearms because some POS decides to murder people.

You tell him no.

Your move Beto.


23 posted on 08/31/2019 7:54:11 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: simpson96

I know I know! Anyone caught violating a gun law should go to jail for a long long long time! That way anyone who actually does something illegal with a firearm will pay for it!


24 posted on 08/31/2019 7:55:04 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: simpson96

These leftist politicians propagandize leftists and then the politicians complain the leftists kill people just like the leftists politicians wanted them to.

JoMa


25 posted on 08/31/2019 7:55:20 PM PDT by joma89
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To: simpson96
Beto O’Rourke?

Do you mean Robert Francis "The Irishman" O'Rourke?

26 posted on 08/31/2019 7:55:43 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: napscoordinator

Why is that shooting bring ignored? How’s it not fitting the narrative? Haven’t even seen it in the news to know what happened.


27 posted on 08/31/2019 7:57:01 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: simpson96

If you want your rights defended, you’d better be sending some money to the NRA-ILA despite the recent propaganda campaign against the NRA from the trolls of the left to conservative discussion forums. Don’t let them win so easily.

The NRA helped President Trump get into office with tens of millions of dollars. How do you want the 2020 election to go?


28 posted on 08/31/2019 7:57:58 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ilgipper

He’s a skateboarder, though. Right on


29 posted on 08/31/2019 7:58:24 PM PDT by atc23
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To: simpson96

Want to decrease “white” “gun violence?” Round up the tweakers and club-druggies!


30 posted on 08/31/2019 8:00:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: simpson96

“We don’t know the reason...’
So simple a 67 yr old disabled veteran can say why ... “Because you and your congressional compadres stopped fundong the looney bins!” WGAF ‘why’!! Guns do not go off sitting on a shelf! You need a human hand to operate the trigger!!


31 posted on 08/31/2019 8:03:06 PM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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To: simpson96

According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by private citizens 2,000 or more times a day to thwart violent crimes.

But Beta believes that violent crime is a legitimate career path for his prospective constituents, and armed victims an OSHA violation.


32 posted on 08/31/2019 8:04:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: simpson96

Is he talking about the shooting or did Mommy and Daddy ground him and take away his allowance?


33 posted on 08/31/2019 8:05:34 PM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength.)
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To: simpson96
Why yes Bobby frankee you are indeed a pile of 💩. When you can provide accurate forecast of who is going to do this, get back to us. Till then STFU.
34 posted on 08/31/2019 8:08:51 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: 2banana

Meanwhile in Mobile Alabama.........crickets!


35 posted on 08/31/2019 8:10:12 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: simpson96

Dumbass even says it’s a human caused problem. DOH!


36 posted on 08/31/2019 8:11:19 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: fella
Reading an article about how the media pushes these mass shooters into it to seek fame. I also wonder how much of it is sort of contagious? (Monkey see - monkey do.)

And that the contagion is a fad - or changes. (Just like real ones- the flu, polio, mumps, etc.)

Back in the sixties it was assassinations. Then plane hijackings. Then serial killers. Now it is mass shooters. I guess the assassinations and hijackings are not as much now due to better security perhaps - but I can't recall the last time I read about a serial killer.

37 posted on 08/31/2019 8:18:24 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: napscoordinator
And the shooting at the football game being ignored

Black-on-black shootings never stay in the news for long.

38 posted on 08/31/2019 8:28:27 PM PDT by cayuga (A gov't that can take your AR-15 can take anything else it wants.)
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To: simpson96

Why are lefturds so bent on using the f-word in public? That’s one of the easy ways to spot one. Whatever happened to “polite company”?


39 posted on 08/31/2019 8:33:56 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: 2banana
Meanwhile in Chicago...<<

are you talking about the ongoing “Black Supremacists Movement”?

40 posted on 08/31/2019 8:37:02 PM PDT by M-cubed
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