Beto O'Rourke to Meghan McCain: You're 'Almost Giving' People 'Permission to Be Violent'

[liskddksil]

Beto O'Rourke has a message to those warning that his mandatory gun buyback proposal might spark civil unrest: you're part of the problem.

The former Texas congressman, whose presidential campaign has been re-animated by his often visceral responses to two mass shootings in Texas, said he was disheartened by commentary from, among others, Meghan McCain, warning that forcing Americans to sell their assault rifles would prompt violence.

“I just I think that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful,” the former congressman told The Daily Beast prior to joining a Wednesday marathon climate town hall on CNN. “It becomes self-fulfilling; you have people on TV, who are almost giving you permission to be violent and saying ‘you know this is this is going to happen.’”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/beto-orourke-to-meghan-mccain-youre-almost-giving-people-permission-to-be-violent?ref=home

[JI7]

1. exactly, justifying their violence is what she did

[hlthe2b]

2. Honestly, would her father, if he were still alive, not call her on this idiocy?

I'm not canonizing John McCain by any means, but he wasn't a stupid man and THIS kind of comment is just damned stupid...

[JI7]

4. she was an idiot while he was still alive. he probably just saw it as

that's how she is and has always been.

[flying_wahini]

5. I think she grew up thinking her shit don't stink.

Being as how her Daddy was ‘special’.

[Mr.Bill]

6. So did her dad. n/t

[Newest Reality]

3. It could also be taken

as a covert threat, as if we are supposed to be afraid of people who will break the laws if they are made. Don't tread on me!

"The voices of the few must no longer prevail over the interests of the many." - June 6th, 1968, President Johnson when he proposed his Gun Control Bill, the day after the shooting of Robert Kennedy.

[Pepsidog]

7. I don't know why McCain is still on the show. Let her go to Fox.

[Hulk]

8. She is such an ignorant, entitled wicked whiner.

A chip off her simple minded fool of a father.

[handmade34]

9. no, McCain is not "Almost 'Almost Giving' People 'Permission to Be Violent'

she is "Giving People 'Permission to Be Violent" ...there is no almost about it

[calimary]

10. Needs to be said. And I'm glad he did.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. I think it's called a dog-whistle call to action.....

and the power of suggestion.

KY.........

[hughee99]

12. Exactly! A forced gun buyback would have been completely

Acceptable if only Meghan McCain hadn’t said anything.