# Is O'Rourke deliberately sabotaging the Dems?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-orourke-deliberately-sabotaging-the-dems/841637 "2019-10-11T16:33:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-orourke-deliberately-sabotaging-the-dems/841637/182 "2019-10-16T18:41:30Z")

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I do have a gripe with the whole “gun buyBACK” terminology though. It’s wrong. The government isn’t buying BACK people’s guns. They never owned them in the first place. O’Rourke is proposing gun confiscation with some compensation.

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