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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts) Mon Apr 29, 2019, 04:15 PM Apr 2019

Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO) [View all]

Apparently, we will be still be able to keep and bear firelocks, as the US military never issued those-see for
earlier discussion of LA Times article covering the same rally:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172207897

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-beto-orourke-los-angeles-rally-20190427-story.html

...“We will also insist and ensure that weapons that were designed and sold to the United States military, with the express purpose of killing people as efficiently as effectively and in as great a number as possible, are kept on the battlefields and are no longer sold in our communities, because they will end up in our synagogues, in our churches, in our mosques and public places.”

The crowd responded with strong applause...

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Beto O'Rourke on Synagogue Shooting and Guns at Los Angeles Rally (VIDEO) [View all] friendly_iconoclast Apr 2019 OP

Question: Is he ashamed of his Irish background? oneshooter Apr 2019 #1

Fox has a whole crew of jumped-up gombeen men(women)/Castle Catholics on payroll... friendly_iconoclast Apr 2019 #2

Beto is a common nickname along the border, BaileyBill Apr 2019 #3