# Is O'Rourke deliberately sabotaging the Dems? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 190
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-orourke-deliberately-sabotaging-the-dems/841637/190 "2019-10-16T19:57:49Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > … don’t make it a law that they can’t have them, just they they cannot take them out of their house unless they have the proper permits. … NYC tried this. They got sued for violating the Constitution, and reversed course. Even still, it looks likely that they’re going to get smacked down further by SCOTUS for their shenanigans. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > … If it is made just a tiny bit harder to get a gun, then it is the outlaws who will encounter the difficulties, not the law abiding. There are lots of gun control proposals in which law abiding citizens will “encounter the difficulties”. If you’ve got some specific ones that you think do a good job of mitigating this issue (law abiding citizens being hassled / harassed / inconvenienced by gun control efforts), I’d be interested in hearing them (although perhaps that’s a subject for a different thread. If I started one, would you make the effort to outline some such proposals there?). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-orourke-deliberately-sabotaging-the-dems/841637)._