A visibly shaken Beto O’Rourke condemned the availability of weapons of war after a deadly mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas.
“Keep that shit on the battlefield,” he said at a candidates forum here, his voice deepening. “Do not bring it into our communities.”
O’Rourke broke the news of the attack to a crowd of about 400 — members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union — and his remarks appeared to straddle deep sadness and simmering anger over the mass shooting. The former El Paso mayor and congressman was on a two-day visit to Nevada when the shooting occurred. He scratched his afternoon events in the Reno area and called off a planned California campaign swing so he could return home to El Paso.“I’m incredibly sad and it’s very hard to think about this,” he said. “But I’ll tell you, El Paso is the strongest place in the world. This community is going to come together. I’m going back there right now to be with my family and to be with my hometown.
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