Beto O’Rourke Doubles Down on Gun Confiscation: ‘We’ve Got to Do Something About’ the 40K Gun Deaths Per Year

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O'ROURKE: "I think this just shows you how screwed up the priorities in Washington, D.C., are. I think what’s truly awful is a 17-month-old baby shot in the face with an ar-15, as happened in Odessa. What’s truly awful is 22 people killed in a Walmart the Saturday before school starts that next Monday, buying their school supplies, innocent of any crime or any threat to this country, in fact living in one of the safest cities in America, el Paso, Texas, hunted down by their ethnicity with a weapon that was designed for use on a battlefield. Talking to those doctors and trauma room surgeons who treated those victims in El Paso, they said these are wounds of war, that high-impact, high-velocity round, when it hit their systems just shredded everything inside of them. I refuse to accept that. And I refuse to even acknowledge the politics or the polling or the fear or the NRA that has purchased the complicity and silence of members of Congress. This weak response to a real tragedy in America, 40,000 gun deaths a year, we’ve got to do something about it. I’m proposing that we do something about it."