Last month, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke proposed a modest solution to the relentless tide of mass shootings: a mandatory buyback program for every AR-15 in the country. The View co-host Meghan McCain responded with a dire warning. “The AR-15 is by far the most popular gun in America, by far,” she told her fellow panelists. “I was just in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, if you're talking about taking people's guns from them, there's going to be a lot of violence.”
Tucker Carlson echoed McCain's blood-soaked sentiment on his Tuesday night broadcast. “So, this is—what you are calling for is civil war,” he said. “What you are calling for is an incitement to violence. It's something I wouldn't want to live here when that happened, would you? I'm serious.” Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative columnist, also warned of tragedy. “I know people who keep AR-15's buried because they're afraid one day the government might come for them,” he wrote on Twitter. “I know others who are stockpiling them. It is not a stretch to say there'd be violence if the [government] tried to confiscate them.”
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