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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I highly doubt they were “threats.” Promises more likely.[/quote]

Good. He will be prosecuted. [/quote]

Beto has zero right to go to this man’s house and take his weapon. If he tried to do so, he, Beto, would be shot or prosecuted.

Beto has no right or authority to enter anyone’s home and take ANYTHING.

He’s the criminal for threatening to take people’s guns.[/quote]

If he was president.  And there was a ban on these weapons with a buyback provision, he would be following the law.  Or more likely, the ATF would be enforcing the law. [/quote]

"Buy back?" 
The government did not sell these people their weapons to begin with.  How can they "buy them back?"[/quote]

You've never heard of a buyback? It's done wonders in Australia. 
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9212725/australia-buyback

[i]"Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted."[/i]

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Suicides and murders were on a downwards trend before buybacks. 
Australian Bureau of Statistics data show that the annual rate of gun deaths fell from 5 per 100,000 in 1980 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 1995. The first buyback was in 1996.

How many firearms are left in circulation?[/quote]

The US currently stands at 14 suicides per 100,000, and 61% involve a firearm.  Maybe we should try to reduce that somehow?[/quote]

you can also prevent that by mandating 24 hr monitoring of every individual in the country. [/quote]

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