Beto O’Rourke Calls For Gun Control, Says We Need To Confront Hate | MSNBC

Beto O'Rourke returned to his former congressional district and decried what he described as President Trump's attempts to stoke racism among Americans after a fatal mass shooting in El Paso. He said victims asked him for not only tighter gun safety laws, but to confront hate.

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Beto O'Rourke Calls For Gun Control, Says We Need To Confront Hate | MSNBC

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  1. Everyone in the NRA is dancing and drinking champagne right now, when ever there is a massacre in the U.S gun sales skyrocket out fear that there might be bans or restrictions of some kind.

  2. White Nationalists that live in the white house concern me. The divider and chief and russian internet fiction have given the letter Q a sinister meaning. Long before laws take effect the divider’s rhetoric needs to stop.

    1. “White Nationalists that live in the white house concern me.”

      Ah illusion into Fascism. What has Trump done so far that is at minimum authoritarian or at maximum Fascist?

    2. Write to CNN , MSNBC, The DNC and all the candidates running now and tell them to stop lying and race baiting and it will stop

    3. Paranoid Schizophrenics that acquire guns and use public areas to act out their delusions are sadly being flamed by the Press. The Press in their willingness to use these events to sell advertising are inciting to the mentally ill. Yet the Press blame social web sites for the propagation of the sick people. The fact is web sites are a venue for proof of intent and aid the law enforcement officials in proving their cases against these perpetrators. Instead of shutting these sites and posts down they should allow them to continue. You would think that the Press would understand this but they do not. The Press prefer to point fingers at Twitter and Facebook. This finger pointing is a mode for the Press to argue against their own culpability. Paranoid Schizophrenics are driven by internal demons and seek out “threats” to vanquish. Additionally the Television and Cinema Media must share in the blame for producing films that celebrate mass murders by so called heroes. Paranoid Schizophrenics see these films and programs and integrate them into their delusions as well. Lastly despite the false information to the contrary video games that train the user to commit mass murders are another form of numbing to the mentally ill and create a normalization of mass murder that is difficult for delusional persons to separate from reality. Psychologists treat people with snake phobia by placing them into close proximity to snakes for increasing periods of time. The result is the same with murder.

  3. We have heard from all the Democrat law makers… where are the republicans? Where is the president in this time of need?

    1. @leicanoct No, Obama was calling for action along with the Democrats…the Republicans offered only “thoughts and prayers”.

  4. My family lives out there I’ve been to this mall many times while visiting.
    This was very scary and something has to change.
    Why can’t both parties come up with some kind of solution.

    1. @Therese Martin if only we could go back to the Obama years where these things never happened. Wait.

  5. White Nationalists have committed mass shootings throughout the world. Trump refuses to investigate the growing crisis.

    1. @Old Boat Guy They are being fought up to the present moment. Extensive investigations on them. You are insane.

    2. What ?

      50 are killed in Chicago on a bad weekend

      You never mention that because of humanity psychology & political team preference

  6. Stop this. Make the gun suckers and racists pay for their crimes. That includes the diapered clad one.

    1. “Make the gun suckers and racists pay for their crimes.”

      Vague. Seems like an emotionally charged appeal absent of fact.

    1. @Jeffrey Binder Beto is a tool and is using deaths as a political tool. I would surmise that he is secretly happy about this shooting because he can fit it to his “open borders” and gun control narrative.

    2. @IndyTraveler1 You are right –he is certainly getting on all the Sunday morning talk shows and laying it all on Trump. For him to use these shootings to pump his beyond dead campaign shows you his true colors.

    3. @lopez 1 no, do you know for sure he is not? Do you know him personally? Politicians do many things to get votes. However, being racist is totally different. Be good, bless ya.

    1. @Wizarding tricks funny that the racist white nationalist, white supremacist and the KKK have aligned themselves with the republicans isn’t it!? Wonder how that works?

    1. Do not take mass shooters into custody. Do not advertise successful mass shooters. Advertise failure.

    2. I agree, death to all crisis actors and govt agencies that participate in these drills to terrorise the American people!!

    3. Yes. The poor acting of the police, crisis actors and TV presenters can not be tolerated. We, the tax payers, deserve a show of a higher quality.

  7. Extremist right wing ideology has no place in the United States of America. We will not stand for it!
    And we will not be hijacked by a clown and his bufoons.

    1. Yay communism act with your brain not your emotions. This was a tragedy and if someone on scene was armed the death toll would have been lower. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

  8. Beto straight up said Trump is to blame because of his racism and growing white supremacy groups

    1. @Wongseifu548 Well stated, thank you for speaking for millions of us. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 stay true and vote blue! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 2020!

    2. The only thing heartbreaking is how stupid Americans are. I wouldn’t believe anything I saw from this beast system tv 📺. They don’t call it programming for nothing.

    1. Smith mundt modernization act of 2012 allowed GOVT MADE PROPAGANDA TO BE USED AGAINST AMERICANS FOR THE 1st time. Americans are the stupidest people.on earth. O y vey!

    2. @Andrew Smithreally so can you give me the lottery ticket numbers because I guess you could see in the future.

  9. This guy is speaking facts and isnt afraid to speak on it…. much respect for him finally saying what many people think but dont say in front of the media

    1. What’s fax it’s total bulshit an FBI study was done on all these regulations these Meatheads want you know what it said it said they will have zero I repeat zero effect on violent crime

  10. Awesome to see him just say “Yes” to that question about it being at Trump’s feet. No politically diplomatic response or trying to divert and talk about instead, everybody doing their part, he just went straight for the jugular, It’s Trump’s Fault.

  11. It kills me when Americans at home ask me if I’m safe living in Rwanda . I’m so much safer here.

  12. TOXIC TRUMP has encouraged and created this sense of hatred. Let’s not forget that this will not go unchallenged by the other side which by the way are good people. YOU CAN NOW BE HAPPY MR. PRESIDENT the blood of these innocent people is your hands and on the hands of your enablers THE CORRUPT REPUBLICANS

  13. Gun control WORKS (see every other first world nation).
    But the NRA hates it because it will cut into their profits. Truth.

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