As Twitchy reported earlier, Beto O’Rouke tweeted about meeting a longtime Republican in a rest stop bathroom and was told during some urinal conversation that the Republican totally agreed with O’Rourke’s policy on guns, which we assume even means mandatory buybacks and door-to-door roundups of legally purchased firearms by armed police officers. No, wait, there won’t be any of that: gun owners will happily cut their AR-15s into pieces voluntarily once O’Rourke is president. Why are they waiting until then, we wonder?

In any case, National Review Online’s Charles C. W. Cooke bucked the trend in the comments and said he totally buys O’Rourke’s urinal story:

I believe this. I was in a gun store today and the owner said to me that he had heard Beto on the radio and was so impressed that he is going to burn his store down tonight. He’s even picked out the matches. — Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 14, 2019

? — ?? Bama Football Belle? (@MyBamaBelle528) September 14, 2019

Youse guys are cracking me up! — IowaGma3 (@Gma3Iowa) September 14, 2019

This is a lie. No self respecting gun store owner would burn down his store using matches. He'd use his official ferrocerium rod Bear Grylls Fire Starter w/ emergency whistle and waterproof lanyard. — Regs (@r3gulations) September 14, 2019

I was thinking AR-15 flamethrower attachment. — Rob Worsnop (@robworsnop) September 14, 2019

Nope, can't use that unless you have the fully-semi-automatic bayonet attachment with the large capacity stabber magazine. — NPP (@pillainp1) September 14, 2019

* fully-semi-assault-automatic. — Rob Worsnop (@robworsnop) September 14, 2019

Seriously, when is O’Rourke going to launch of a hashtag for Twitter videos of AR-15 owners sawing their rifles in half to support his policy?

Well you see I took a different approach, I picked out beautiful wrapping and I'm sending my firearms directly to the campaign itself bc I'd like to put a bow on it. — Heather Champion (@winningatmylife) September 14, 2019

Maybe his campaign will reply with one of those awesome “Hell yes we’re gonna take your AR-15” T-shirts from his campaign store.

Sorry, we were being disingenuous earlier about the door-to-door thing; O’Rourke clarified on Joy Reid’s show that law-abiding gun owners would certainly hand theirs over so there’d be no need for raids on personal homes:

Beto O’Rourke Responds To Briscoe Cain’s ‘Scare Tactics’: Going ‘Door-To-Door’ To Confiscate Guns Is ‘Not Something That We Would Do’ https://t.co/3PBtMqnVaG — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 14, 2019

Then what else was "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47" supposed to mean, Beto? I know your campaign is trying to break out of the low single digits, but douchebaggery is not the way to do it. — Chris Leuba (@TejasSaint) September 14, 2019

Believing gun owners will voluntarily turn over their guns to the government is even more delusional than believing they'll turn them over when threatened with force. — Jon A (@Latebird2013) September 14, 2019

No, he’d have us live as criminals because if he outlaws guns, then you are under threat of being arrested at any time. Or being ratted out. Nothing to fear there ? — Linda Eaton (@AnXXopinion) September 14, 2019

Not to mention he wants to buy back all our guns with our own money we pay in taxes — Joe Bradley (@jwbatx) September 14, 2019

“That clip will be played for years at Second Amendment rallies,” Dem Sen. Chris Coons. This is why he is backpedaling. He knows he sunk his chances of any political office & exposed the DNC’s true feelings on the 2 Amendment! Trump 2020! — robert stokes (@StokesRstokes38) September 14, 2019

The most sincere thing he has said was, “He’ll yes we will take your guns.” Nothing he can backtrack with now will change what we know he means. — #justagirl (@she_brews11) September 14, 2019

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Update:

I chatted up @BetoORourke in the bathroom today at La Colombe He said he was inventing fake anecdotes in which Republicans said things that no Republican in their right mind would say I told Beto to stop lying about that and to admit that he was a furry https://t.co/wvJUG9KFSq — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 15, 2019

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