My AR-15 is 'ready for you', Texas lawmaker tells Beto O'Rourke
Last edited Fri Sep 13, 2019, 03:45 AM - Edit history (1)
Source: Guardian
Twitter takes down Republican Briscoe Cain’s tweet within hours because it violates rules on ‘threats of violence’
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Fri 13 Sep 2019 02.06 EDTLast modified on Fri 13 Sep 2019 02.37 EDT
A Republican state lawmaker from Texas has caused outcry for tweeting “My AR is ready for you Robert Francis” after Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke pledged to ban and confiscate AR-15 military-style rifles.
Within hours, Twitter took down Briscoe Cain’s post, which O’Rourke’s campaign labeled a “death threat”. “It violates our rules for threats of violence,” a company spokesperson said late Thursday night.
Link to tweet
Earlier, Cain, a 34-year-old “conservative Republican” lawyer who represents a district outside of Houston, Texas, had mocked Twitter users who called his comment a threat of violence. “You’re an idiot,” he told one commenter. When O’Rourke called the tweet a death threat, and said it proved that neither Cain nor anyone else should own an AR-15, Cain responded, “You’re a child, Robert Francis.”
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On edit, adding photos of Texas gunslinger Congressman, Briscoe Cain:
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Perhaps we misunderstand him...
and he is actually saying that he will have his AR-15 cleaned, emptied, broken down and ready for turning over to the government.
After all, the GOP claims to be law-abiding.
Beto should have wrote him back and said "make sure all the ammo is out before handing it over"........
It's like: "Dudes, spend some time in the gym so you can at least look threatening..." 
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