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(112,224 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:48 AM Sep 2018

John Cornyn picks fight with Beto, gets battle with Houston police chief instead

Just 24 hours after Sen. Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke agreed to a series of debates, Texas Sen. John Cornyn wanted to draw O'Rourke into a discussion about guns over social media.

Cornyn, a Republican, on Saturday night started the exchange by Tweeting out an old clip of O'Rourke saying in February that he opposed selling AR-15s in America.

"I just don't think we should be selling AR-15s in this country," O'Rourke says in the video clip Cornyn tweeted out to his 140,000 followers.

Cornyn Tweeted out the question: "For self defense?"

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/John-Cornyn-picks-fight-with-Beto-gets-battle-13236591.php

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John Cornyn picks fight with Beto, gets battle with Houston police chief instead (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP

I think it's important cyclonefence Sep 2018 #1

Thanks. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #2

I figured you were constrained cyclonefence Sep 2018 #4

I really think if there is to be increased gun control badhair77 Sep 2018 #3

cornhole has always been a showboating moron. nt Javaman Sep 2018 #5

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

1. I think it's important

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:57 AM

Sep 2018

to post the police chief's reply, for posters who don't want to click on the link:

O'Rourke, a congressman from El Paso, did not respond. But Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo did.

"In 32 years policing I've yet [to] encounter a case of a community member using an AR-15 for self-defense," Acevedo tweeted. "I'm not saying it hasn't happened, but I'd bet the house they've been used many, many times to slaughter innocent Americans as opposed to self-defense."

TexasTowelie

(112,224 posts)

2. Thanks.

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 10:14 AM

Sep 2018

I'll go over the four paragraph limit occasionally, particularly when there are short paragraphs, but sometimes it is difficult to get in the full story with those limitations.