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O’Rourke: El Paso Shooter Was ‘Inspired to Kill by Our President’

2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke broadly endorsed taking certain guns away from Americans, specifically naming AR-15s and AK-47s as weapons that shouldn’t be allowed.

Democrat presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke went after Pres. Trump in his opening statement at Thursday’s Democrat candidate debate claiming how the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas clearly showed “just how dangerous Donald Trump is,”

O’Rourke even went to the edge of the cliff when he, in a roundabout way said the shooter in El Paso was “inspired to kill” by Pres. Donald Trump:

“On August 3rd, in El Paso, Texas, two things became crystal clear for me and I think produced a turning point for this country.

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“The first is just how dangerous Donald Trump is – the cost and the consequence of his presidency. A racism and violence that had long been a part of America was welcomed out into the open and directed to my hometown of El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed, dozens more grievously injured by a man carrying a weapon who should never have been able to buy in the first place – inspired to kill by our president.

“The second is how insufficient our politics is to meet the threat that we have right now. The bitterness, the pettiness, the smallness of the moment, the incentives to attack one another and try to make differences without distinctions, mountains out of mole hills. We have to be bigger. We have to see clearly, we have to speak honestly and we have to act decisively. That’s what I want to do for you as president of the United States. Thank you.”

This piece originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.

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