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Showing Original Post only (View all)My AR-15 is 'ready for you', Texas lawmaker tells Beto O'Rourke [View all]
Last edited Fri Sep 13, 2019, 04:45 AM - Edit history (1)
Source: Guardian
Twitter takes down Republican Briscoe Cains tweet within hours because it violates rules on threats of violence
Lois Beckett
@loisbeckett
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 ORourke pledged to ban and confiscate AR-15 military-style rifles.
Within hours, Twitter took down Briscoe Cains post, which ORourkes campaign labeled a death threat. It violates our rules for threats of violence, a company spokesperson said late Thursday night.
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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. Youre an idiot, he told one commenter. When ORourke called the tweet a death threat, and said it proved that neither Cain nor anyone else should own an AR-15, Cain responded, Youre a child, Robert Francis.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/13/my-ar-15-is-ready-for-you-texas-lawmaker-tells-beto-orourke
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Stupid is just stupid, I hope Beto files charges against him..........................
turbinetree
Sep 2019
#20
Beto's campaign should report this fool to the FBI. That was clearly a threat.
onetexan
Sep 2019
#24
Is it supposed to be some kind of insult calling him "Robert Francis"? Here's another Robert Francis
George II
Sep 2019
#26
Republicons: what they can't win by trickery they go for with violent force. Bullies at best . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2019
#27
Three photos. An ugly sport coat and tie combination, an argyle sweater and his bestest cowboy...
EarnestPutz
Sep 2019
#52
Problem is not the gun, but the person behind it...isn't that what the wingers say.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2019
#38