Beto on Banning Assault Rifles: ‘We Have a Congress Too Craven to Act’

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O’ROURKE: “I know from listening to the surgeons and the doctors who have treated these gunshot victims at Del Sol and UMC, some of whom also serve at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, have been trained in combat trauma care, the wounds that they are seeing are like the wounds that they saw in Afghanistan and Iraq. These weapons like the AK-47 were designed to kill people as effectively, as efficiently and as great a number as possible and that's exactly what they are doing. When you listen to doctors describe the internal injuries of these survivors, it is absolutely horrifying. But to this point we have a Congress too craven to act, a democracy not up to the task, that favors those who can pay for access and influence and outcomes, the complicity and the silence of those who are in positions of public trust, and that is exactly what has happened here in this country."