An impassioned Beto O'Rourke told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday the epidemic of U.S. gun violence is 'f***ed up' just one day after the second mass shooting in less than a month in his home state of Texas.
An impassioned Beto O'Rourke told CNN's Dana Bash the epidemic of U.S. gun violence is"f***ed up" in an interview Sunday, just one day after the second mass shooting in less than a month rocked his home state of Texas.as he doubled down on a comment he previously made at a campaign stop about lawmakers' inability to enact effective gun control measures.
"The rhetoric that we've used, the 'thoughts and prayers' that you'd just referred to, it has done nothing to stop the epidemic of gun violence," O'Rourke said."To protect our kids, our families, our fellow Americans in public places. At a Walmart in El Paso where 22 were killed. In Sutherland Springs, in a church. One or two a day all over this country. A hundred killed daily in the United States of America. We're averaging about 300 mass shootings a year.
O'Rourke also discussed his recent visit to an Arkansas gun show where he said a firearm vendor told him he"should be able" to sell anyone over the age of 18 with or without a criminal or mental health background check. "We do not yet know what the motivation is, we do not know the firearms that were used or how they acquired them but we do know this is f***ed up," O'Rourke said, eliciting applause and cheers from campaign stop attendees.
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