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Video: Beto O’Rourke Gives Embarrassing Answer on AR-15s After High School Student Trips Him Up
RedState ^ | 10/29/2019 | Sister toldjah

Posted on 10/30/2019 5:12:42 AM PDT by simpson96

(snip) O’Rourke, who famously declared during a presidential debate that he would “take” AR-15s and AK-47s, was confronted by a student in Iowa on Friday who described himself as a “hunter” who uses an AR-15.

“What about those people who use that as a way to, you know, get dinner, who live down south who don’t really have a lot of options for food, and they don’t have money but they can get their own?” the student asked.

The student went on to explain that an AR-15 is “much more efficient” at killing an animal like a deer and how if a weaker gun is used, it could potentially put the animal through more pain, and its adrenaline can “spoil” the meat.

The answer O’Rourke gave was classic Beto, proving he’s still as clueless and ignorant about the issue as he ever was:

O’Rourke responded that it was the first time he had heard the case for using an AR-15 to hunt deer, but he said he has heard from Texas ranchers and farmers who use them to fend off feral hogs.

“Perhaps a way to address a legitimate concern or need is to ensure that those who have or want to use an AR-15 are able to keep it at a hunting club or at a gun range so that there is some control and safeguard still placed on that firearm,” he said.

Watch the student ask the question and Beto respond below:

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This is just another on a long list of answers he’s given that show he has been operating solely on emotion and anger and gross ignorance on this issue for months, which is precisely why he belongs nowhere near the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


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To: simpson96

Very few Leftists understand that ARs and AKs are used for anything other than mass murders, much less for hunting.


41 posted on 10/30/2019 8:02:30 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't te Don't tell anyone.)
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To: simpson96
"...those who have or want to use an AR-15 are able to keep it at a hunting club or at a gun range so that there is some control and safeguard still placed on that firearm,”

This harkens back to the days of the 2nd amendment as a collective right, where all the arms are kept in a central armory in the town square, as if the King is calling all the peasants to war.

-PJ

42 posted on 10/30/2019 8:09:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Sicon

And yet by doing so, he managed to get Beto to publicly embarrass himself further and drive more Fudds away from the Democrats...


43 posted on 10/31/2019 4:20:11 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Sicon
The 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting, and you do not have to prove some sort of “need” to be “allowed” to own an AR-15.

I think your statement is self-contradicting. If you don't have to prove a need, then use of an AR-15 for hunting is just as protected as for any other purpose.

The Founders could have worded the Second Amendment, "Because a Militia is necessary, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The actual wording does not establish such a strong link between the Militia purpose and the right protected. The right pre-existed the Constitution and would have included the right to feed one's family.

In fact the Militia clause is the "suicide pact" that liberals claim cannot be part of the Constitution. Our Founders were so brilliant that they formalized their declaration of war against their own government by writing the Declaration of Independence. In this document they explicitly declared that the people are entitled to abolish governments. The Second Amendment protects some of the power of the people necessary to do just that.

44 posted on 11/02/2019 11:31:41 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell

There is no contradiction in my statement. I did not suggest that the 2A somehow makes hunting an illegitimate use of an AR-15. My point was that it does not require anyone to prove a “need” (e.g. hunting) in order to be “allowed” to own one. It’s not unlike having to prove that there is some threat to you in order to get a carry permit. The right pre-exists the Constitution, as you say, and having to prove a need or justification to the government is an infringement on that right.


45 posted on 11/03/2019 4:31:18 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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