A gun owner at a Beto O’Rourke rally was heckled by the crowd after she told the presidential candidate that he was not going to take her guns.
“I’m here to say, hell no you’re not,” Lauren Boebert told O’Rourke about his proposal to seize AR-15 guns from Americans during a town hall in Aurora, Colorado.
“I have four children, I am 5-foot-0, 100 pounds, I cannot really defend myself with a fist,” she said. “I want to know how you’re going to legislate that because a criminal breaks the law, so all you’re going to do is restrict law-abiding citizens, like myself.”
At several moments through her message to O’Rourke, the crowd at the town hall began to heckle her before the Texas Democrat intervened and told them to let Boebert finish.
Boebert’s “hell no” statement came after the September Democratic presidential debate in which O’Rourke said: “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
The moment was heralded by conservatives as proof that Democrats want to take away Americans guns, while more moderate Democrats have attempted to distance themselves from the comments.
