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Beto: We Shouldn’t Be Selling ARs in this Country
The Truth About Guns ^ | 10/08/18 | Dan Zimmerman

Posted on 10/09/2018 9:43:02 AM PDT by Simon Green

Just an election season reminder this was said:

“I think banning bump stocks makes a lot of sense. I don’t know that we should raise the age for buying an AR-15 I just don’t think we should be selling AR-15s in this country.

“That weapon was designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill people as effectively and as efficiently as possible on the battlefield.” – Senate candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke in an interview with CBS News


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; 2a; 2ndamendment; ar15; banglist; betoorourke; bumpstocks; election2018; election2020; guncontrol; gungrabbers; molonlabe; nra; orourke; rkba; secondamendment; tedcruz; texas
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To: rawcatslyentist

“We didn’t give ourselves the right to bear arms to protect us from deer!”

We didn’t give ourselves that right at all. We are endowed by our Creator, by God, with the right not to be killed.

No human agency has any moral authority to interfere with our free exercise of the right not to be killed.


81 posted on 10/09/2018 11:22:30 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: stickandrudder

Yankee Ingenuity!


82 posted on 10/09/2018 11:25:25 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Simon Green

This should go over big in the state of TEXAS!!!!!!


83 posted on 10/09/2018 11:37:06 AM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Simon Green





84 posted on 10/09/2018 11:38:56 AM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Simon Green
Texas Dem DESTROYS His Chances In 2018, Facing Federal Charges


85 posted on 10/09/2018 11:41:36 AM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Simon Green
He's right. ARs should NOT be for sale. They should be given away from armories to law abiding citizens. Give us MILSURPLUS M16s, M16A1s, M16a2s, M16A3s, M231s, M3 greasguns, M203s, M4s, M4a1s, M4a2s, M4a3s, M16a4, etc......
86 posted on 10/09/2018 11:45:44 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: redcatcherb412
Wonder if a burst mode would require same licensing as full auto ?

Yes, 3 round burst is NFA title 2 firearm. An M16a2 (Safe, Fire, Burst) cost a police department $1,000.00 on an ATF Form 10. A transferable to us mere civilians is $25,000.00 on a ATF Form 4.

They could be consecutively serial numbered, but all that matters is how the appear on the registry. Want to pay 25k for a mid-80s receiver delivered in 9 months when they can get a brand new one in a few days?

87 posted on 10/09/2018 11:48:09 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: puppypusher
This Idiot Beto would prefer we only used flintlock rifles and arrows to defend ourselves with.

No. That evil petty tyrant Bobby the Fraud would prefer that we be unable to defend ourselves AT ALL.

88 posted on 10/09/2018 11:55:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: TLI
Those commie bastards will 100% agree with Bobby the Fake Mexican. Bobby the Fake Mexican's gun control won't apply to them.
89 posted on 10/09/2018 11:57:05 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Simon Green

There is now some hope that TCruz can prevail, but he cannot count on El Paso, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Laredo. He’ll have to get probably 40 percent in all these areas: will be tough to do.


90 posted on 10/09/2018 12:00:20 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: FLT-bird

In the words of Jimmuh Carter, Beto “does not intend to lose.”


91 posted on 10/09/2018 12:01:12 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Texas resident

and most of the big cities with the possible exception of Fort Worth


92 posted on 10/09/2018 12:03:15 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Simon Green

That comment’ll go over like a fart in a hot, rural church. in the hot summer. Except in libtard-craphole Austin. Bye, Beto.


93 posted on 10/09/2018 12:05:56 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: redcatcherb412
"Maybe not full rock n roll which is wildly inaccurate unless using a bipod, but being able to select 3 round burst would be nice. Wonder if a burst mode would require same licensing as full auto ? "

Full auto is very accurate in skilled hands. 3 round burst is considered a machine gun, same as full auto.

The police have full auto weapons by the tens of thousands as do dozens of non military federal agents. The American people do not have access to the same weapons available to the government. This is exactly the situation the founders were trying to prevent with the second amendment. In fact the second amendment as it applies today is specifically about the right of the people to possess machine guns without any restriction whatsoever as these are the weapons an oppressive government force will use against them. Just like the first amendment protects your right to chat openly about your favorite baseball team that's not the intent. The intent of the 1st amendment is to protect political speech. The second amendment is the same way. When a government force comes for your freedom they will bring a machine gun and nothing less. It is imperative the American people be armed accordingly.

94 posted on 10/09/2018 12:19:22 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: ThinkingBuddha
How is this idiot even competitive??/?!!!!!

His campaign is 95% Astroturf - a total Hail Mary maneuver by the Dems, who need to get lucky *somewhere*. I think they bet way too much on this guy.

95 posted on 10/09/2018 12:21:35 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

Right, they should not be sold. They should be issued to anyone who can legally own a weapon-with a selector switch.


96 posted on 10/09/2018 12:25:24 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Simon Green
"“That weapon was designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill people as effectively and as efficiently as possible on the battlefield.”

Then why do the police have them? What law enforcement need is served by a weapon that's only purpose is to kill people on the battlefield? When has someone dialed 911 and said please send the police there are a large number of people who need to be killed right away?

Mr. Beto, Why do the police need machine guns? Exactly what verbiage of the second amendment ban the American people from possessing machine guns?

97 posted on 10/09/2018 12:31:33 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: vette6387

Except Montgomery County.


98 posted on 10/09/2018 12:46:46 PM PDT by Cheesehead in Texas
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To: Simon Green

So, BAAAAAAAATO, if we’re not going to sell them, then how are you going to fund giving away several million of them per year - that’ll be even more expensive than funding the Wall.

Oh, you want to BAN them? And you’re running for statewide office here in BY GOD, TEXAS? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Now here’s another quiz question for you: what are you going to do about the tens of millions of AR variants that exist already? Hell, here in BY GOD, TEXAS there must be damned near 5 million of the things. Who are you going to send around to collect them, eh BAAAAAAAAAAAATO? How are you going to staff all of the PDs, when their officers not only quit (mainly because they have no interest in leaving a crime scene in a zippered bag), but tell you to “Come and Take It” regarding their OWN AR?

Honestly, I couldn’t have scripted a better putz to get his ass handed to him in a Texas election against a rock-ribbed conservative like Cruz. Funny, he doesn’t LOOK like a sacrificial lamb to me.

On a more serious note - folks, THIS GUY is emblematic of the Democrats. They absolutely, positively WILL go after our guns if they ever, ever, EVER get ahold of any amount of power in this country. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to what they plan to do if they ever succeed...but as for me, I have pictures of Stalin’s gulags running through my mind right now - IF WE ARE LUCKY! Fight these Leftist scum in every possible way - and it is damned easy and cheap to do it by going to the polling place in a few weeks. Certainly it is cheaper than blood, and easier than always looking over your shoulder and wondering if Officer (formerly) Friendly has your name on his computer database of gun owners, all the better to haul you in because you have a broken tail light or went 3 MPH over the limit.

Stop scum like Beto O’Rourke - VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!!!


99 posted on 10/09/2018 12:51:36 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Simon Green

“That weapon was designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to kill people as effectively and as efficiently as possible on the battlefield.”


Then mine’s not working according to design specs.

Maybe it needs to actually be on a battlefield to work properly? Beto, once you’re elected, can you make sure that you bring the battle to the house of each and every AR owner in the nation - just to make sure that they all work, you know...otherwise, we have a major league class action lawsuit.

FU BETO

COME AND GET IT!!!!!!!!!


100 posted on 10/09/2018 12:54:35 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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