NPR Confronts Beto on How He’ll Confiscate Guns Despite SCOTUS Precedent

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O'ROURKE: "Is the question 'Should we not pursue public policy or legislation for fear of the current composition of the courts?' My answer to that is no, do the right thing while you have time to do the right thing. And I think every American understands the distinction between a hunting rifle or a shotgun or a handgun that you have in your home for self-defense and something that was designed and is devastatingly effective at doing it to kill people on a battlefield. That is what an AR-15 and an AK-47 is. As -- as we now know the majority of America supports this proposal. A plurality of Texans, in what is thought to be a very red and certainly a very proud gun-owning state, support this proposal as well, so I know that this is the right thing to do. I know America supports this. You have a very good question about what is its fate when it is challenged in the courts of law. We don’t know, but -- but fear of that uncertainty shouldn’t prevent us from doing the right thing for all those Americans whose lives you want to save in a country that loses 40,000 people a year to gun violence. No other country comes close."