Garcia: Beto O’Rourke’s profanity cut through the obscenity of gun violence
At his best , the former El Paso congressman, and current Democratic gubernatorial nominee, has the capacity to make politics visceral — to turn rhetorical riffs into something you feel in your gut.
As he has often done in the weeks following the horrific May 24 school shooting in Uvalde that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, O’Rourke talked about the absurdity of an 18-year-old being allowed to legally purchase an assault-style weapon designed “to penetrate an enemy soldier’s helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead” and use it “against kids at five feet.”“It may be funny to you motherf-----, but it’s not funny to me,” O’Rourke shot back. The room exploded with applause.
His preferred method for dealing with his detractors has been to disarm them with kindness, as he did on July 23 during an outdoor event in the North Texas town of Spearman.
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