Posted on 09/16/2019 7:27:06 PM PDT by KC_Lion
Robert Beto ORourke explained he plans to use fines to compel American gun owners to comply with his AR-15 ban, during a weekend exchange with reporters.
ORourke made his claim in a video posted by Fox4 DFWs Teresa Riley.
He was asked how he plans to make Americans comply with his AR-15 ban and he said, I begin by saying we expect our fellow Americans to follow the law. If they do not there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law.
Question: what happens if people dont sell their guns back to the govt....answer: pic.twitter.com/wGuXJlBZQG— Teresa Riley (@TeresaRFox4) September 15, 2019
ORourke went to talk about the example of Australia, citing how that country put in place a similar ban. He claimed Australia witnessed, a near 50 percent reduction in gun violence deaths as a result. But ORourke did not mention that rifles are not a statistically significant contributor to overall gun deaths in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I begin by saying we expect our fellow Americans to follow the law.”
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But it’s ok for illegal aliens to break the law.
Agree 100 percent. People do not realize how dangerous this bumpstock ban truly is. I have said before we are now at the point where a toaster over could be defined as a machine gun so it would be quit easy now as you say to define any semi a machine gun. If the text of our laws are fluid as this clearly has set in precedent then the laws say whatever the government wants them to say.
What is this ATF incident you refer? I'm familiar with a lot of these but not sure what you are talking about. When and where did it happen?
Sounds like he’s chickening out of taking them by force.
This will never not irk me.
Why do Democrats barely talk about handguns despite how many annual deaths and injuries involve them in the United States, especially when compared to their obsession, AR-15s?
Oh, right, the politics of it, that over 70% of Americans oppose a ban on handguns. So Democrats don't really care about gun-related homicides/suicides, just politics.
The next day the “showers”.
Yup! I think that came through loud and clear. Of course now he is trying to back peddle but I don't think it's going to work. There is just one video clip after another on the net of him saying "hell yes, we are going to take your AR15s and AK's". He did not say anything about fining people.
He stepped in it big time with this statement.
Didn’t Beto’s Woodberry School teach the meaning of the word, “infringed”?
Democrat party: Seize firearms, disarm Americans, open our borders, give away our resources to illegals, embrace socialism. They are established anti-first amendment, anti-second amendment, and more. I don't suspect it will be hard to get them anti-fourth with questions about searching for firearms. Red flag laws already infringe upon several. The whole bill of rights and our constitution are at risk from Democrats. Engaged Americans can see this, will our disengaged Americans see it?
1971, pre-internet.
Not the only incident but one I always remember.
This is the sort of action that got the FOPA-86 introduced and eventually passed.
First link I found, https://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/firearms/enforce/ballew.html
I have read much better detailed accounts in the past.
With the name and date I expect details may be available.
If Butt-O gets his way this is the sort of tragedy that will become common again.
Swallwell has already in so many words called for nuking red state folks.
I would argue that part of the reason is handgun crimes are overwhelmingly committed by Democrat constituents.
That so called reduction in violence is totally made up.
“Swallwell has already in so many words called for nuking red state folks.”
wow! i’d forgotten about that ...
He can take his fines and stick them.
:)
Hmm I’m beginning to warm up to the idea of us Conservatives voting for this guy in the Primaries. Stark Raving Mad - cure the country of ever electing a Millennial Lefty. Eat dirt Beto
Their ships would run aground on all the accidentally lost firearms, outside the current 12-mile offshore limits.
Fines? To quote Jordan Peterson, What it I dont pay it?
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