Beto O’Rouke Calls Out Uvalde Heckler At TX Town Hall: “It May Be Funny To You, Motherfucker, But Not To Me”

The Huffington Post reports:

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for governor in Texas, didn’t hold back when a heckler laughed as he described the gun used to murder 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde earlier this year. “It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me, OK?” O’Rourke fired back at the laugher, who was standing among a small group of supporters of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Newsweek reports:

O’Rourke, who has long pushed for stricter gun laws, said that 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary on May 24 after a teenage gunman “legally purchased” an AR-15 rifle, adding that the weapon was originally designed for use in combat. The law, O’Rourke said, allowed the gunman to “take that weapon that was originally designed for use on the battlefields in Vietnam to penetrate an enemy soldier’s helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead up against kids at five feet.”

The clip already has 2.3 million views.

“It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.” https://t.co/PhTgcn2ByL pic.twitter.com/OLsMuhuokT

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