Beto O'Rouke Blows up Press Conference on Texas Shooting

[TemplarKormac]

Why?
For demanding that something be done about slaughtering 10 year olds?

Something was done. The shooter paid for the crime with his life.

 

[Winston]

No he doesn't. You're just grandstanding

Texas "constitutional carry" signed into law, goes into effect Sept. 1

Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and other Republicans who were initially noncommittal about the bill were under immense political pressure this session from conservatives and gun rights advocates, who have long lobbied the Texas Legislature for permitless carry.

www.texastribune.org

Abott owns this. He knows it, all those redneck dipshits on the stage with him knew it, and that is why they worked so hard to yell down Rourke and it is why they got so mad about it.

You gun nuts are just that "nuts", you don't have a lick of common sense. An assault weapons ban is not intended to stop mass shootings, it is intended to mitigate the damage of those mass shootings. The same thing for magazine capacity limits.

Look, if this "kid" would have attained his weapons by pulling them out from under his father's bed, well the father could be held liable. But I got to ask, what gun dealer is going to sell two assault rifles to this clown? Obviously he had mental issues. We don't need more restrictive gun laws, we need to lift the liability protections from gun dealers and manufacturers. It makes no sense. Bartender sells a drink to a drunk that goes out and kills someone in a car ACCIDENT, he can be found guilty of manslaughter. But a gun dealer sells an assault weapon to a total nutcase that purposely shoots multiple people, well he gets to deposit the proceeds in his bank account worry free. That is what you call FUBARED.

 

[TemplarKormac]

America needs to throw a temper tantrum
We have had enough!

Yeah, throw as many as you like. It won't bring anyone to the table to solve this issue.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Beto just ended his political career.

 

[Lastamender]

America needs to throw a temper tantrum
We have had enough!

Enough of jerks like you putting our country into the sewer. Like that?

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah, throw as many as you like. It won't bring anyone to the table.

Very true

All Republicans are offering is their prayers

 

[Nostra]

Very true

All Republicans are offering is their prayers

And all you have offered is temper tantrums, Troll.

 

[Failzero]

America needs to throw a temper tantrum
We have had enough!

Midsommar is looming large

 

[rightwinger]

Beto just ended his political career.

Beto was right about access to guns

Let him run on common sense gun laws while Abbott runs on his record of making it easier to get guns

 

[TemplarKormac]

rightwinger You say you've 'had enough' each time a mass shooting occurs, but then a few weeks later it fades from your memory. Until the next one occurs, and then the next. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Stop acting like you care. You don't. Just stop. Nobody believes you.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Very true

All Republicans are offering is their prayers

Your temper tantrums are the equivalent.

 

[Failzero]

Sensible firearm Restrictions ( Drug test included in EVERY Background Check when purchasing a firearm for every buyer 21 & under

 

[Lastamender]

Very true

All Republicans are offering is their prayers

And all Democrats are offering is disarming the public while defunding police, releasing criminals the day they are arrested, and importing criminals at the Southern border.

 

[TemplarKormac]

 

[Winston]

Beto O’Rourke would be glad to discuss his gun control proposals

One of them isn’t Thoughts and Prayers

Crashing your opponent’s press conference is, as Cruz said, a stunt. Of course it is. But so was the event O’Rourke was crashing, in which the most powerful men in the state assembled at a school auditorium to do…what, do they do, exactly?

We’re all familiar with this routine by now—the elected officials who descend on the scene in their best emergency-response earth tones to bask in their proximity to law enforcement and collectively absolve everyone with power of any responsibility. People like Abbott and Cruz and Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick—the state’s Republican attorney general and lieutenant governor—will emphasize the “tragedy” of what happened and the unpredictability of it all. There were no obvious signs, Abbott said on Wednesday, not long before O’Rourke’s interruption; law enforcement acted quickly, he said, and saved lives; the assault rifles he acquired shortly before the shootings were, of course, purchased legally. They’ll give a few days of defensive interviews about hiring veterans to stand guard at schools. Maybe, in a few weeks, we’ll get “Uvalde Strong” t-shirts.

O’Rourke’s rhetoric on gun control viscerally shifted after the 2019 massacre targeting Mexican and Mexican-American shoppers at an El Paso Walmart. He pushed a mandatory assault-rifle buyback program during that campaign and said at a presidential debate, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.” He now says he is “not interested in taking anything from anyone,” but he has criticized Abbott for signing a law that allows anyone to carry a handgun without even acquiring a permit.

Ultimately, the question of whether his intervention Wednesday was polite or not is less important than the fact that O’Rourke is right. The effect, if not the outright point, of events like the one he crashed is to ensure that the right time and the place to discuss gun control never comes—to indulge the delusion that the people who are truly doing nothing are actually doing something. The shooting was predictable, if not in the specific sense, then in the broader one: The state’s and the country’s gun laws enable outcomes such as this by design. If it wasn’t predictable, then why can we keep predicting it?

Beto O'Rourke was right

More people should tell their governors that they're useless to their face.

www.motherjones.com

 

[Flash]

Beto is all of us right now. The 99%.

Beto is a piece of shit that is an embarrassment to the great state of Texas.

 

[toobfreak]

You are absolutely right. Democrats do everything they can to attack, impeach, or imprison. Time for the GOP to take off the kid gloves and give it right back to them INCLUDING a Biden impeachment when they take the House and Senate.

Which means throwing that pustule Kevin McCarthy out as well. The idiot got on TV a few weeks ago bragging that the GOP doesn't do such stuff, they live for the rule of law looking out only for the good of the country. Then they get their clock cleaned.

When you are in a boxing match and you insist on boxing by the rules above the belt waiting for the bell while your opponent takes his gloves off while kicking you repeatedly in the groin when the ref's not looking, you are the definition of a LOSER.

The time to win is now. WIN WIN WIN. Win like the democrats by any means at all possible just so that you WIN, and kick the living shit out of democrats pounding them into the earth like hammered shit--- no fear and no apologies.

 

[Flash]

 

[22lcidw]

Beto is all of us right now. The 99%.

Beto is Stalinesque like Trudeau. A beta male setting the system up for the Alpha male tyrant coming. Calling truck strikers racists and terrorists is pretty bad. Using laws on the books to remove their right to buy and sell as the Bible says will happen is pure evil.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Politicizing a tragedy!

WHICH ONE?

The Uvalde School Massacre.

Beto O'Rourke, May 25, 2022 at a press conference by Greg Abbott.