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Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke called out a heckler on Wednesday who laughed as he called for gun control in the wake of the Uvalde elementary school massacre.
O’Rourke, a Democrat, was discussing laws on the books in Texas that allowed the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to legally purchase two semi-automatic rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition on his eighteenth birthday when he was interrupted by cackling laughter. O’Rourke, who was delivering the speech in the city of Mineral Wells, responded to the heckler by calling the person a “motherf***er.”
“It may be funny to you, motherf***er,” O’Rourke said, “but it’s not funny to me.”
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O’Rourke was in the middle of describing the firearm used by the gunman to shoot 19 students and two teachers dead on May 24 when the heckler began to laugh, prompting O’Rourke to turn around and point at the person as he called him out.
O’Rourke’s profane response elicited a standing ovation from the crowd.
The former congressman has long pushed for stricter gun laws. During a 2019 Democratic presidential debate in the wake of a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, O’Rourke told the audience, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”
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O’Rourke will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November. A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows O’Rourke trailing Abbott in the race by 6 percentage points.
