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Fox Host: Gun Buyback Program Will Lead To Gun Owners Shooting Cops


During the third Democratic Presidential debate back in September, candidate Beto O'Rourke gave the Republicans a major gift when on the debate stage he exclaimed, "Hell yes we're going to take your AR-15's, your AK-47's". O'Rourke has also proposed a mandatory gun buyback program with the aim of getting rid of assault style weapons. Republicans were then able to use these comments to fabricate a story of the evil tyrannical government coming to take your guns away

You could be fair to O'Rourke and say that he hadn't necessarily thought of the constitutional ramifications of such a policy, got caught up in the debate frenzy and wanted to use the issue of gun control to stand out from his opponents. O'Rourke hails from a state (Texas) that experienced a anti-Hispanic mass shooting at the beginning of August in which 22 people died.

Fox News, of course, leapt at the opportunity to criticise O'Rourke and his comments. Fox News host Jesse Watters slammed O'Rourke's gun control proposal and stupidly remarked that a gun buyback will result in gun owners shooting police and "cost more lives than mass shootings."

Watters made the claim while arguing with co-host Juan Williams, Williams suggested that Watters was fear mongering, "I think -- look, thats fear mongering, talking about oh you got to go door to door" to which Watters replied that this would only cause more violence and cost more lives than mass shootings would.

Now, these are the exact same Fox News hosts who downplay every police shooting, scream down the camera about how we should always listen to and respect police officers and using the mantra of "Blue Lives Matter". In fact, a quick google search shows Fox News writing several articles condemning water being thrown over police officers, which happened a few months ago in New York. 

'Blue lives' evidently do not matter to Jesse Waters and Fox News though, if you're literally willing to shoot and kill officers. The irony of these comments is clearly lost on Watters and Fox News, who complain about police officers getting wet, but both themselves and gun owners in general will literally shoot the officers they supposedly support.
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