Robert O’Rourke Plans for Gun Manufacturers to Finance Gun Confiscation Plan

Robbie O’Rourke cannot open his mouth without showing himself to be even more out of touch with the American people than we thought. And we already thought he couldn’t possibly more out of touch! But he is! How!!

Well, to answer my own rhetorical question, he plans on using gun manufacturers to finance his gun “buy back” plan. Because THAT’S the part that seemed untenable. Now it’s bulletproof!

“I think a mandatory buyback can be financed with a surcharge that would be paid by gun manufacturers,” O’Rourke told CBS News reporter Tim Perry. “Those who are making the AR-15s and AK-47s, and continue to sell them into our communities despite the terror that they have inspired and the lives that they have taken.”

“I think this is the right way to fund a mandatory buyback, without imposing any new taxes on our fellow Americans,” he added.

First, let me start with the obvious: You can’t buy back something you didn’t sell in the first place. For someone who proudly screeched, “Hell yeah, we’re going to take your AR-15s!”, Robert is being weirdly cryptic about his unconstitutional confiscation of legally owned property.

I’m also not sure he knows that there’s guns besides AR-15s and AK-47s. Best case scenario, he’s that dumb and too uninterested in being a good leader to actually do his research. Worst case scenario, he’s manipulative and reliant on keeping his constituents woefully ill-informed so that he can control them. Either way, not presidential material.

The Democratic presidential hopeful’s gun confiscation plan is so radical that even members of his own party have been distancing themselves from it. Many Democrats, including those in leadership, have been sounding the alarm that such an anti-Second Amendment idea will backfire and simply fire up the Republican base.

O’Rourke, however, has touted the bipartisan condemnation as a signal that the former Texas lawmaker is being authentic.

“It shows me we are doing something right,” O’Rourke told reporters when asked about both President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s disapproval.

Let me do the honor of disabusing you of that notion. You’re not doing this right, Rob. Wanna do the right thing? Throw in the towel.