Beto O'Rourke's campaign has begun selling a T-shirt which uses his weekend statement "This is F--ked Up" repeated several times, announcing that the proceeds will go to Moms Demand Action and March for Our Lives, two organizations that lobby for gun control.
To those who might be offended by the profanity, Team Beto's account also tweeted, "if you're angrier about a swear word than a baby being shot in the face, consider your choices."
In March, O'Rourke promised to stop swearing after being chastised by a Wisconsin voter, saying: "Great point. And I don’t intend to use the F-word going forward. Point taken, and very strongly made. … We’re going to keep it clean." But he broke his pledge the following month and appears to have ignored it ever since.
if youre angrier about a swear word than a baby being shot in the face, consider your choices
— Team Beto (@TeamBeto) September 1, 2019
The phrase is a reference to what O'Rourke said just hours after a gunman in west Texas indiscriminately shot at people as he traveled on Interstate 20. "Not sure how many gunmen, not sure how many people have been shot," O'Rourke told a crowd of supporters in Virginia after hearing about the incident in Texas. "Don’t know how many people have been killed, the condition of those who have survived. Don’t know what the motivation is, do not yet know the firearms that were used, or how they acquired them. But we do know that this is f--ked up," O'Rourke said.
Moments later, O'Rourke's Twitter account posted a similar quote, "We don't know how many have been killed. We don't know the motivation. But here's what we do know: This is f--ked up."
O'Rourke's comments occurred while police were still investigating an active shooting situation. The identity of the gunman was not revealed to be 36-year-old Seth Ator until Sunday, two days after police killed him in front of an Odessa, Texas movie theater.
While police attempted to control the shooting spree in Odessa, O'Rourke used the shooting to call for more gun control. He slammed Congress for what he perceived as inaction on gun legislation, saying the lawmakers "will not even pass universal background checks or close those loopholes that allow people to buy a firearm when they should not be able to."
O'Rourke said last week that he would "absolutely" force citizens to hand their assault rifles over to the government in a buyback program if he were elected president.
"This is f--ked up" was widely quoted and shared after O'Rourke's comments on Friday, and the candidate dropped the word again live on CNN.
2019-09-02 21:18:00Z
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