COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 05/12/2019
Bob Moser
How do you address the fears that the government is going to take away those assault rifles?” a reporter asked Beto O’Rourke on the Saturday morning before Labor Day, outside a campaign stop in Charlottesville, Virginia. O’Rourke was fielding questions about guns, which, after a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, had become central to his presidential bid. “That’s exactly what we’re going to do,” he replied.