{"id":1498910,"date":"2022-05-31T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498910"},"modified":"2022-05-31T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:00:33","slug":"hell-yes-gun-grabbing-beto-is-back-people-who-own-ar-15s-shouldnt-be-able-to-keep-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hell-yes-gun-grabbing-beto-is-back-people-who-own-ar-15s-shouldnt-be-able-to-keep-them\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hell, Yes,\u2019 Gun-Grabbing Beto Is Back: People Who Own AR-15s \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Be Able To Keep Them\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhell-yes-gun-grabbing-beto-is-back-people-who-own-ar-15s-shouldnt-be-able-to-keep-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas gubernatorial hopeful Beto O\u2019Rourke (D) has flipped again, saying on Tuesday that he did not believe Americans who already owned AR-15s and AK-47s should \u201cbe able to keep them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time O\u2019Rourke has flipped on the issue recently, as he announced several months ago that he had abandoned one issue that had been the centerpiece of his failed 2020 presidential bid: gun confiscation, at least when it came to the AR-15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we\u2019re doing right now,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-taking-anything-beto-orourke-does-a-complete-180-from-hell-yes-im-gonna-take-your-ar-15\/\">he said<\/a> in November of 2021 as he campaigned for governor in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/beto-orourke-ar-15-owners-shouldnt-keep-them?intcmp=tw_fnc\">report<\/a> from Fox News, O\u2019Rourke\u2019s second one-eighty came prior to the deadly shooting that took place last Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas \u2014 and he brought it up at two separate town halls in Texas the week before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are fools to believe anything other than that these weapons of war will continued to be used with greater frequency against our fellow Americans,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said at an Abilene town hall on May 21. \u201cIt\u2019s why I\u2019ve taken the position that I don\u2019t think we should have AR-15s and AK-47s in civilian life. They belong on a battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>O\u2019Rourke mentioned confiscation while speaking to veterans during another town hall the same day in San Angelo, saying that he didn\u2019t even believe that people who legally owned AR-15s and AK-47s \u201cshould be able to keep them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids are my conscience. And I may win or lose this race, but I\u2019m always going to have to face them and answer for what I\u2019ve done or failed to do when I had the chance to do something,\u201d he said of his own children. \u201cAnd I just took the position that may not be politically popular or maybe too honest that not only should no one be able to purchase an AR-15 or an AK-47, because they\u2019re designed to kill humans and that high-impact, high-velocity round will just tear up everything inside you. You\u2019ll bleed out before we can get you back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>O\u2019Rourke\u2019s current position \u2014 apparently once again in favor of confiscation \u2014 matches the position he took on the campaign trail in 2019 when he told crowds, \u201cHell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke hopes to beat incumbent Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-host-gov-abbott-was-rude-to-oust-beto-orourke-from-press-conference-he-crashed\/\">confronted him<\/a> directly on the issue of gun control during an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed\/\">official press conference<\/a> just after the tragedy unfolded in Uvalde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas gubernatorial hopeful Beto O\u2019Rourke (D) has flipped again, saying on Tuesday that he did not believe Americans who already owned AR-15s and AK-47s should \u201cbe able to keep them.\u201d This marks the second time O\u2019Rourke has flipped on the issue recently, as he announced several months ago that he had abandoned one issue that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1498946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}