by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Okay, I didn't watch last night's Democratic presidential debate, but I did listen to a bit of it with my best girl, Alexa. According to this morning's recaps, I did manage to miss one of the best lines of the "show" when former Congressman Beto O'Rourke of Texas assured viewers that "If the high impact, high velocity round, when it hits your body, shreds everything inside of your body because it was designed to do that so you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldiers," then, "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15!"
And the place broke into wild applause.
You can count on American terrorists not to let a threat to their manhood like that slip by unchallenged. A state legislator in Texas didn't waste any time in issuing a death threat to O'Rourke via Twitter. Republican State Representative Briscoe Cain posted this gem after the debate:
To which Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke quickly responded:
Later Beto expanded on that logic on CNN by saying:
Rep. Briscoe Cain pulled his tweet down after making the threat. There is no word yet whether he will be sanctioned by Twitter, the Texas Legislature, or law enforcement for making a threat against the life of another individual - or whether he will be forced to surrender his weapon.
Thank you, Beto O'Rourke, for putting your very life on the line in defense of basic American decency and values.
Citizen Journalist
Okay, I didn't watch last night's Democratic presidential debate, but I did listen to a bit of it with my best girl, Alexa. According to this morning's recaps, I did manage to miss one of the best lines of the "show" when former Congressman Beto O'Rourke of Texas assured viewers that "If the high impact, high velocity round, when it hits your body, shreds everything inside of your body because it was designed to do that so you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldiers," then, "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15!"
And the place broke into wild applause.
You can count on American terrorists not to let a threat to their manhood like that slip by unchallenged. A state legislator in Texas didn't waste any time in issuing a death threat to O'Rourke via Twitter. Republican State Representative Briscoe Cain posted this gem after the debate:
"My AR is ready for you, Robert Francis."
To which Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke quickly responded:
"This is a death threat, Representative. Clearly, you shouldn't own an AR-15 - and neither would anyone else."
Later Beto expanded on that logic on CNN by saying:
". . . anytime you have somebody threatening to use violence against somebody in this country to resolve a political issue or really for any reason, that's a matter for law enforcement. But it really drives home the point, better than I could have made. Representative Briscoe Cain is making the case that no one should have an AR-15. That they can hold over someone else in this country, say, 'look, if we disagree on something, let me introduce to to my AR-15.' Absolutely wrong."
Rep. Briscoe Cain pulled his tweet down after making the threat. There is no word yet whether he will be sanctioned by Twitter, the Texas Legislature, or law enforcement for making a threat against the life of another individual - or whether he will be forced to surrender his weapon.
Thank you, Beto O'Rourke, for putting your very life on the line in defense of basic American decency and values.
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