Fox News Contributor: If Beto O’Rourke Can’t Take My Girl, How Will He ‘Take My Guns?’

‘There isn’t a piece of legislation in Washington, D.C. could pass that would take the guns used in places like Chicago off the streets because they are already owned and used illegally’

JONES: "No, you won’t, Beto. No, you won’t. You couldn’t take my girl and you haven’t earned my respect. How are you going to take my guns? That’s my response there. The truth of this is we have an epidemic for sure in this country. But that epidemic is that young people aren’t respecting life and death. They are taking their own life. That’s the true epidemic, is suicide. There is a gun violence problem, but there isn’t a piece of legislation Washington, D.C. could pass that would take the guns used in places like Chicago off the streets because they are already owned and used illegally. And so this is a red herring. It’s an emotional talking point. The Democrats are using. And to an extent it’s working. Mainly because the part of America that lives on the coast, that lives in places that can’t own guns don’t know much about guns or how they are purchased. So, when you use a term like universal background check, people think that means essentially what’s happening today, which is you go into a gun store to buy a gun and you have to pass a background check. What they don’t know is that the federal government is so inept at doing its own job that if you fill out a background check and the federal government takes three days to get back to you, that firearms dealer can hand the weapon over to you without passing the background check. That’s the type of system we have in place and that’s how badly the government is at enacting it. So by all means, let’s pass legislation that’s tremendously more burdensome and will be that much harder to enforce."

(h/t Mediaite

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