67K views · 3.2K reactions | ‪Yesterday, people brought assault weapons to our rally at Kent State—where 4 students were shot dead in 1970.‬ ‪I told them nobody should show up with an AK-47 or an AR-15 to seek to intimidate us in our own democracy.‬ ‪We need to buy back every single one of them.‬ | Beto O'Rourke | Facebook

The media needs to stop fear-mongering. The only guns you will have to sell back are weapons of war, designed to kill as efficiently and effectively as possible. The American people are with me on this: AR-15s and AK-47s belong on the battlefield, not in our communities. | Beto O'Rourke