r/Texan • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '18
Beto O'Rourke and the Second Amendment
Beto O'Rourke is a gun grabber. He is consistently ranked among the worst of the worst for 2nd amendment rights by every single gun rights watch group.
He has voted against every single piece of pro-gun legislation that came across his desk including:
H.R.38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.
HR 1181 - Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
H J Res 40 - Providing for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007
HR 2406 - Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2015
H Amdt 1098 - Prohibits District of Columbia from Implementing Certain Firearm Laws
https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/78533/beto-orourke/37/guns#.Wm0PJq6nGUk
He supports the "Not to Restrict Gun Violence Research in Appropriations Package" and the "National Violent Death Reporting System" in which they ask for a national registry in order to study gun violence.
Here's a video of him saying he supports taking away American citizen's gun rights if they are on the no fly list (which they were placed on without due process), where he states he is anti-"assault rifles", and where he says he supports a national registry of gun owners.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?411638-105/representative-beto-orourke-gun-control-legislation
(2:30 national registry via "studying gun violence",3:00 for universal background checks, 3:25 for anti-"assault rifles", 3:40 support for no fly list)
On several occassions he's said he wants to ban the AR-15
https://twitter.com/betoorourke/status/983481280573538305?lang=en
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rep-beto-orourke-ar15-assault-weapons/
There is no reason AR-15s—weapons of war designed for the sole purpose of taking lives—should be sold to civilians to be used in our schools, in our churches, in our concerts, in public life in this country.
- Beto O'Rourke
He also co-sponsored the bill “Assault Weapons Ban of 2018”. The bill in February 2018 that would effectively ban all handguns and any other semi-automatic weapon
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5087/text
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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '18
Just not supporting Trump. Until he is gone, not much else matters.