While running for president in 2019, former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke said: “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15.” But when asked about that comment while running for governor in February of 2022, O’Rourke said: “I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone. What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment.”
Fox News reports that O’Rourke actually flipped back to be in favor of confiscating AR-15s at an event on May 21 (just before the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas). “I don’t think that the people who have them right now in civilian use should be able to keep them,” O’Rourke told veterans at a town-hall meeting.