Posted on 09/08/2019 9:20:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Beto O'Rourke (D.) accused President Donald Trump of inviting mass shootings during an appearance Saturday at the New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention.
The former Texas congressman said the El Paso shooter, who killed 22 people, was a product of America's racist culture and Trump's racist rhetoric.
"This person drove 600 miles with that hatred, really at the invitation of our president, and opened fire with that AK-47 on innocent people in a Walmart, killing 22 of them and grievously wounding many dozens more," O'Rourke said.
He proceeded to demand an aggressive gun-control agenda. Listing the items of that agenda, he said the political difficulty of legislating it all would not deter him.
"A gun registry in this country, licensing for every American who owns a firearm, and every single one of those AR-15's and AK-47s will be bought back so they are not in our streets, not in our homes, do not take the lives of our fellow Americans," he said to loud applause. "And we are going to do that together."
Assuming the position of a much-publicized New York Times series, O'Rourke stated the country's founding was not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first African slave was brought to North America. This was the root of the gun violence problem, he argued.
"This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism, since the very founding of this country, August 20 of 1619, the first time that a kidnapped African was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in," O'Rourke said.
"This is the reality of United States of America," O'Rourke continued.
He went on to argue it was only a matter of time before Trump, who has "no honor, no morals, and no ethics," would bring about such an attack with his rhetoric.
"Sooner or later it was going to find us. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when," he said.
O'Rourke continued to praise progressive social movements that he said reflect the aspiration of some in America to right historical wrongs.
"This is a country that has produced Moms Demand, this is a country that has produced March for Our Lives, this is a country that has produced the leadership that will ensure that we not only have universal background checks and red flag laws and end the sale of those weapons of war, but that we go the necessary steps further, as politically difficult as those may be," O'Rourke said.
Well, as a former “hacker” he is nearly unique among elected Democrats in that he can likely erase a smart phone rather than pound the crap out of it with a hammer.
Bobby apparently didn’t read the shooters manifesto, entitled “an inconvenient truth”.
The dude was a radical socialist environmentalists. He also happened to think brown people has too many babies, and so were bad at socialism and bad for the environment.
Not sure how that overlaps with Trump.
“...every single one of those AR-15’s and AK-47s will be bought back so they are not in our streets, not in our homes,...”
A moment of inadvertent honesty there. When Beto & other gungrabbers say they “want AK-47’s off our streets” they really mean “out of citizen’s hands”.
That means confiscation, that means police knocking on your door and invading your home to search for `illegal’ guns like following Katrina in 2005.
Since most firearms are unregistered except noted on 4473’s (which are illegal to use to identify owners), the po-po will have no choice but to turn your house upside down. A simple “no, officer, I don’t have any guns here” will not suffice for them.
Heading for CWII if present trends continue.
He’d get more traction if he went tranny...
...Irish Bob is just a jerk, plain and simple (and, boy, is
he EVER simple..in the head...) he also knows noghting of history....did he never hear of the Jamestown Colony in what became the colony of Virginia...? The Virginia Colony of England established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America. (For all you folks who still cling to the mistaken belief that the Pilgrims were the first settlers, arriving at Plymouth Rock in 1621, fugeddaboudit....! it just ain’t so ...)
The left keeps pushing for a shooting Civil war.
The Russian Kalashnikov AK’s have full automatic capabilities. The Armalite Rifle in question (AR-15) does not. I do NOT own an AK-47. I DO own an AR-15. It IS legal.
Either ‘Beto is a consummate liar or he’s a complete idiot. I believe he qualifies as both. I would love to read that he has been run over by a bus. Even better, a garbage truck. We can not afford to suffer fools.
FWIW, I do own a semi-auto Kalashnikov with folding stock & all the fixin’s. Isn’t it still an AK-47?
Anyway, we can dismiss Beto to kingdom come, but all 25 of those bozos are of one mind about: confiscation, open borders, faggie empowerment, Medicare for the entire world, coddling Muslims, shutting down fossil fuel production, etc.
The three frontrunners in addition to being three old white f@rts are lockstep on all those issues. IMO Pres. Trump could mop the floor with any of them at the debates and be reelected, but they all want to disarm us.
How? Now there’s the rub; I’m retired Army and accustomed to drafting field orders for the execution of tactical operations. I have yet to read how any of these gungrabbers plan on backing up their fascistic goals with action.
As in: estimate of situation, number of gun owners (exact whereabouts unknown; this isn’t UK or Oz), available manpower to carry out door to door confiscation (without registration there’s no other way), organization from Federal level down to state & local level (with plenty of resistance at all levels, this isn’t the USSR), concept of operations (Preezy Lizzie Warren can’t just shout “Go get ‘em, boys!!”) and lots of other details that just can’t be worked out over a Starbucks latte while denouncing Trump supporters.
A liberal vowing, “I’m coming for your guns!!!” still brings a chuckle.
;^)
Does think Kennedy lookalike ski or fly his own plane? Be nice to be rid of him.
O’Rourke is a mentally deranged jerk. It is actually O’Rourke and his Democrat’s that are the ones “Inviting” mass shootings by disarming God-fearing, Law-abiding American Citizens (Which they, the DemocRATS all HATE) knowing that with their actions they make victims out of us. Every damned DemocRAT that want us disarmed is a Criminal Lover/Supporter and a true “Despicably Ignorant Liberal Destroying Our Society”.
“I have yet to read how any of these gungrabbers plan on backing up their fascistic goals with action.”
Uh yeah, I said that.
Any thoughts?
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