| Chaos as Hong Kong lawmakers thwart leader's annual address Posted: 16 Oct 2019 12:40 AM PDT  Furious pro-democracy lawmakers twice forced Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to stop delivering a speech laying out her policy objectives Wednesday, clamoring for her to resign in chaotic scenes that caused her to walk out of the legislature. Lam was able to deliver the annual address more than an hour later by video, but the reception inside the Legislative Council marked a slap in the face for the embattled chief executive grappling with anti-government protests now in their fifth month. When Lam started delivering the speech, she was shouted down by chanting pro-democracy lawmakers who held aloft placards showing her waving with hands colored blood-red.
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| Pete Buttigieg Swats Down Beto O’Rourke on Guns: ‘I Don’t Need Lessons From You on Courage’ Posted: 15 Oct 2019 09:37 PM PDT  Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke said on the debate stage Tuesday night that Americans who refuse to turn over banned semi automatic rifles under his mandatory gun buyback program would be met with unspecified "consequences," a stance which drew major pushback from his fellow Democratic contenders.The Texas Democrat didn't get into much more detail, but made clear that police will exercise force to confiscate weapons banned under his plan, the most sweeping gun control proposal offered by any Democratic presidential candidate."If someone does not turn in an AR-15 or an AK-47...then that weapon will be taken from them," O'Rourke said. "If they persist, there will be other consequences."Every candidate who addressed the issue on Tuesday evening supported additional restrictions on the sale of so-called assault weapons, but none went as far as O'Rourke. And his proposal prompted a harsh rebuke from others, especially South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg."Congressman, you just made it clear you don't know how this is actually going to take weapons off the streets," he told O'Rourke. "I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal. The problem is not other Democrats who don't agree with your particular idea of how to handle this. The problem is the National Rifle Association and their enablers in Congress, and we should be united in taking the fight to them."That drew a heated response from O'Rourke, who accused Buttigieg of minimizing the problem of gun violence and the toll it's taken on victims of mass-casualty shootings."When you, mayor, describe this policy as a shiny object, I don't care what that meant to me or my candidacy," O'Rourke shot back. "But to those who have survived gun violence, those who have lost a loved one to an AR-15 or an AK-47, marched for our lives, formed in the courage of students willing to stand up to the NRA and conventional politicians and poll-tested politicians, that was a slap in the fact to every one of those groups and every survivor of a mass casualty assault."O'Rourke's proposal would likely require a massive police mobilization to enforce the confiscation of millions of firearms targeted by the plan. And that raised concerns for other candidates on the stage."In the place I grew up in, we weren't exactly looking for more reasons for cops to come show up at the door," said Julian Castro, the former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. "I am not going to give these police officers another reason to go door to door in these communities."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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