On Wednesday, Democratic Senator from West Virginia Joe Manchin told a reporter that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke would not be taking his guns away. Manchin's comments come in response to O'Rourke's growing calls for gun confiscation.

“Beto’s one human being. He gave his own opinion, OK? I think it was very harmful to make it look like all the Democrats. I can tell you one thing: [O’Rourke]’s not taking my guns away from me,” Manchin said.

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“You tell Beto that OK?” Manchin added.

Dem Sen. @JoeManchinWV on Beto pledge to confiscate AR15s:



"Beto's one human being. He gave his own opinion, OK? I think it was very harmful to make it look like all the Democrats. I can tell you one thing: @BetoORourke's not taking my guns away from me. You tell Beto that OK?" — Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) September 18, 2019

Like any constitution loving American, Manchin was right to assert that nobody would be taking away his guns. He did however assert that not all Democrats agree with O'Rourke, which is probably true, but unlike Manchin, almost no Democrats are speaking out against O'Rourke's dangerous rhetoric.

O'Rourke's radical gun confiscation narrative has been ramped up in recent months considering the failed senatorial candidate is desperate for Democratic primary support.

During the third round of Democratic debates, O'Rourke doubled down on his anti-Second Amendment rhetoric and said "Hell Yes" when asked if he would confiscate guns.

"Some on this stage have suggested a voluntary buyback for guns in this country," ABC News host David Muir said.

Muir asked: "You have gone further. You said, quote, 'Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell them to the government, all of them.' You know the critics call this confiscation. Are you proposing taking away their guns and how would this work?"

O'Rourke announced that as president, he would take away guns that he described as "designed to kill people on a battlefield." This statement was extremely misleading considering "battlefield" weapons are completely illegal for civilian ownership in America.

"I am, if it is a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield," O'Rourke said. "If the high impact high velocity round, when it hits your body, shreds everything inside of your body because it was designed to do that so that you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldiers. When we see that being used against children and in Odessa. I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15. And that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa and Midland [that] there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time."

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"Hell yes we are going to take your AR-15, your AK-47," he said. "We are not going to allow it to be used against fellow Americans anymore."

On Wednesday, O'Rourke revealed just exactly how he would force gun owners to hand over their guns.

While talking to reporters, O'Rourke announced that gun owners would be fined if they don't hand over their weapons.

"I begin by saying that we expect our fellow Americans to follow the law," O'Rourke said on the campaign trail. "If they do not, there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law."

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Question: what happens if people don’t sell their guns back to the govt....answer: pic.twitter.com/wGuXJlBZQG — Teresa Riley (@TeresaRFox4) September 15, 2019

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