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Texas Republican lawmaker to Beto O'Rourke: 'My AR is ready for you'

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Texas Republican lawmaker to Beto O'Rourke: 'My AR is ready for you'
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Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Republican Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain drew fierce ire Thursday night for a gun-related tweet that many considered to be a death threat against Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.

Twitter took the comment down within hours because it violated a rule forbidding threats of violence and O'Rourke's campaign planned to report the tweet to the FBI, according to CNN. It's against federal law to threaten "major candidates" for president.

The online conflict came on the heels of two mass shootings in Texas and on the night that O'Rourke debated fellow Democratic presidential candidates in Houston. O'Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, touted his proposed mandatory buyback program for assault weapons at the debate and said "hell yes" he plans to take Americans' AR-15s and AK-47s.

"My AR is ready for you Robert Francis," Cain tweeted, calling O'Rourke by his full first and middle names.

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Taking enlightened political discourse to new levels, eh wot?

Of course, he "was only exercising his First Amendment Rights in defence of his Second Amendment Rights" so there is "Nothing to see here folks, move along, move along." - right?
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The POS is not fit for office, and should lose his right to own a weapon for 5 years.
 
Seems people are reading too much into this. His comment is essentially another way of saying if Robert Francis wants his gun to come and get them. Molon Labe is a common phrase Pro2a people say, it isn't an actual threat but a refusal to relinquish our weapons.
 

Riiiight, so if I were to tell the cops that it isn't a threat but a refusal to relinquish my illegal drugs that would be ok to you right and not a threat?
 
that many considered to be a death threat against Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.
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Oh please. It's just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous proposal. There's not going to be a mandatory buyback program and Beto will never be President so he has nothing to worry about.
 
This is true, but it sure helps the campaign donations come in for a guy that lives in a district so red that it gives him over 80% of the vote anyway.

Taylor said:
Oh please. It's just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous proposal. There's not going to be a mandatory buyback program and Beto will never be President so he has nothing to worry about.
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Praxas said:
Riiiight, so if I were to tell the cops that it isn't a threat but a refusal to relinquish my illegal drugs that would be ok to you right and not a threat?
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Apples and oranges.

Guns are perfectly legal and owning them is something new and innovative called a constitutional right. Cocaine, meth, heroin, and other such drugs are illegal as you stated, therefore not a constitutional right.
 

By killing them. I see.
 
Beto and Briscoe both sound like a couple of 3rd graders on the schoolyard lobbing taunts at each other.
 
Indie guy said:
Apples and oranges.

Guns are perfectly legal and owning them is something new and innovative called a constitutional right. Cocaine, meth, heroin, and other such drugs are illegal as you stated, therefore not a constitutional right.
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The idea is that if Beto Rourke were able to make the guns illegal, than it would be a threat. Hence my comments so glad you admit it is a threat.
 
Taylor said:
Oh please. It's just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous proposal. There's not going to be a mandatory buyback program and Beto will never be President so he has nothing to worry about.
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Then why make a big deal about it? Oh yeah, because you folks like to make a big deal out of something that will never be.
 
Praxas said:
Then why make a big deal about it? Oh yeah, because you folks like to make a big deal out of something that will never be.
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I didn't make the thread, "you folks" did, I merely rolled my eyes.
 
If you think that's pathetic, think of all the people who will send them money because of it. It's the epitome of money down a rat hole.

Bum said:
Beto and Briscoe both sound like a couple of 3rd graders on the schoolyard lobbing taunts at each other.
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Twitter just shows that politicians are regular idiots like everyone else without speech writers.
 

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(& Beta's a total scumbag.)
 
Taylor said:
Oh please. It's just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous proposal. There's not going to be a mandatory buyback program and Beto will never be President so he has nothing to worry about.
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Beto may not be president in 2021... but his future is pretty bright. POTUS may well be in his future.
 
SDET said:
Thankfully, you don't make the rules!
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No one person should, and certainly not me. So what about you, do you have an opinion on this sort of thinly veiled threat? Or do you say no problem?
 
Taylor said:
Oh please. It's just a ridiculous response to a ridiculous proposal. There's not going to be a mandatory buyback program and Beto will never be President so he has nothing to worry about.
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True as that may be, it excuses nothing. It was most definitely a threat. And he should be gone yesterday.
The guy is mental.
 
Anthony60 said:
Of what country? Venezuela?
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United States. He won't get your vote, but with a little seasoning he could win big in a few years. He is smart, articulate and passionate. He has broad appeal and not afraid to say what he thinks. He has a future, as evident by his performance in the Texas US Senate race of 2018.
 
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let us call it not smart. If he would have said I will defend my right to bear arms, nobody would have batted an eyelid. It would have been a no-brainer for a lot of Americans.

The point is both men have the right to say what they want. Beto had the right to say he would democratically find a way to ban weapons like that and the republican had the right to say "not so fast, buckaroo, it is still the right to bear arms and the second amendment and I will defend that right". But are a non issue to me, Beto will never win the presidency, no other democrats want to go as far as he wants and they would still have to alter the 2nd amendment and that isn't going to happen. Nice posturing possibly intended to make a "middle or the road" compromise proposal down the road about gun safety and background checks.
 

"Come and Take It" is a historic quote from when Texas declared it's independence from Mexico. Any real Texan would know this, "Bato Male" obviously does not.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qvg01
 
Taylor said:
I didn't make the thread, "you folks" did, I merely rolled my eyes.
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There are like 3 threads on this and YES, you folks created it beforehand. Typical con busting in without knowing FACTS. Sit down bub, you're about three threads behind.
 
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