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In gun confiscation showdown, it's Beto vs. Chip
by Jonathan Tilove, Austin American-StatesmanGood day Austin:
I was at the Young Americans for Liberty Convention at the Sheraton Austin Hotel Saturday night where U.S. Rep. Chip Roy declared, “I can tell you, I will not register my firearms with the federal government.”
.@chiproytx “I can tell you. I will not register my firearms with the federal government.” At Young Americans for Liberty Convention in Austin.pic.twitter.com/1wYrW4Ovvs
— jonathantilove (@JTiloveTX)September 8, 2019
— jonathantilove (@JTiloveTX)September 8, 2019
No mention of “cold, dead hands.”
But Roy, appearing just before the convention closer, and YAL god and godfather, Ron Paul, got the ovation one might have expected.
Roy’s remarks came only a few hours after Beto O’Rourke, 2,000 miles away, speaking at the New Hampshire Democratic Convention in Manchester, N.H., declared that he not only wants to register every gun in America but have the government take possession of all those that fall into the category of “assault weapons.”′
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/blogs/20190910/in-gun-confiscation-showdown-its-beto-vs-chip