The massacre of 19 babies and their teachers by a weapon of war in their elementary school, is no laughing matter. Come on Texas! #Repost @washingtonpost with @use.repost ・・・ Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic candidate for Texas governor, railed on Wednesday against his state’s easy access to AR-style-rifles like the one used in May to massacre 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex. The 18-year-old gunman had legally purchased his rifle, which was “originally designed for use on the battlefields in Vietnam to penetrate an enemy soldier’s helmet at 500 feet and knock him down dead,” O’Rourke told supporters during a campaign rally. After a heckler cackled, O’Rourke initially ignored the laughter. He kept stumping, saying that the Uvalde shooter had used the rifle not to fight enemy soldiers off in the distance but “against kids” five feet away. But then he pointed at the heckler: “It may be funny to you,” O’Rourke thundered, interjecting a swear word, “but it’s not funny to me.” O’Rourke later tweeted that he considers nothing more serious “than getting justice for the families in Uvalde and stopping this from ever happening again.”