Saturday, October 26, 2019

Beto O’Rourke: Gunmakers Will Fund AR-15 Buybacks

 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 02: Democratic presidential candidate, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) speaks during the 2020 Gun Safety Forum hosted by gun control activist groups Giffords and March for Our Lives at Enclave on October 2, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nine Democratic candidates are taking part …

 Breitbart

Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke told CBS News in an interview this week that he will fund his AR-15 buyback via money from gun manufacturers.

CBS News’s Tim Perry asked, “How much do you think a mandatory gun buyback would cost taxpayers?”

O’Rourke responded:
I think a mandatory buyback can be financed with a surcharge that would be paid by gun manufacturers, those who are making the AR-15s and AK-47s and continue to sell them into our communities despite the terror that they’ve inspired and the lives that have been taken.
O’Rourke said his surcharge would fund a buyback “without imposing any new taxes on…Americans.”

He did not mention that the surcharge would raise the price of the firearm, the equivalent of a new tax.

O’Rourke also omitted FBI crime stats for 2018, which show over twice as many people were killed with fists and feet than were killed with rifles of any kind. Those same FBI stats show over five times as many people were killed with knives and cutting instruments than were killed with rifles of any kind.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation calculates there are 16 million-plus privately owned AR-15s in the U.S.

8 comments:

  1. Crazier and crazier. The libtards are showing their true colors, they are trying to out crazy each other.

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  2. Trying to mentally digest that sort of logic causes a severe crease between my eyes and pain in my head.

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  3. That STUPID A$$, can not even comprehend something called logic. I can't even go there with THAT much stupidity. My Dad thought me more common sense when I was in 4th grade.

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  4. Since few, if any, will be selling them this should be a nonissue for the manufacturers.

    Of course when he sends his goons to seize them it should be most costly indeed, just not for the manufacturers.

    Y'all have a nice day.

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