how do you address the fears that the government is going to take away assault rifles as you call them if you re talking about buybacks and banning? so i want to be really clear that that s exactly what we re going to do. americans will who own ar-15s, ak-47s will have to sell them to the government. in the wake of the latest mass shooting in his home state of texas, presidential candidate beto o rourke has been out front very explicitly making the case for a mandatory purchase by the government of every military style weapon in the country, a position we should note that is supported somewhat remarkably by 46% of the country, almost half the population. in response, some conservatives have argued that you can t do that because if you try to implement that policy, law-abiding good guy with a gun gunowners will resort to violence en masse. so this is what you re calling for is civil war.