Lauren Boebert is decidedly pro-gun.
It's located — where else — in Rifle, Colorado.
Boebert's passion for the Second Amendment led her to make a three-hour drive to Aurora, the Denver Post said, where Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was conducting an outdoor town hall Thursday not far from where a mass killing took place at a movie theater in 2012.
The paper said Boebert, 32, took note of O'Rourke's declaration — "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47" — at last week's Democratic primary debate.
'Hell no, you're not'
So, with her Glock handgun holstered at her side, the Post noted, Boebert didn't waste her chance on the mic to speak to O'Rourke: "I am here to say: Hell no, you're not," she told him.
And quite a few folks in the crowd didn't like it, as they jeered and hollered at Boebert.
To his credit, O'Rourke asked his fans to "be respectful" and let her finish.
She then asked the candidate how he intends "to legislate evil, because it is not the gun — it is the heart of the man."
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The heckling and groaning from the crowd grew louder. So Boebert raised her voice a tad, and O'Rourke again had to help quiet her detractors.
"I was living in Aurora during Columbine happened," Boebert said. "I had just recently moved when the Aurora shootings happened yet I have very close ties here. Yet all of those people were there defenseless."
"No, they weren't!" a heckler hollered back.
Boebert pressed on: "They had no way to defend themselves against a crazed shooter. So I want to know how you intend to legislate the hearts of men and leave American citizens like myself, American mothers, I have four children — I'm 5 foot zero, 100 pounds, cannot really defend myself with a fist."
Oh, they didn't like any of that — and the crowd really got on her, and O'Rourke had to step in again.
'I don't have my AR-15, I have my Glock — don't worry, sir, I have your back'
But Boebert had a classic retort to one male heckler: "I don't have my AR-15, I have my Glock — don't worry, sir, I have your back."
"Burglars do not like armed defense, yet that is a right that shall not be infringed in America," she added.
"Boot licker!" someone in the crowd yelled at Boebert.
Here's the clip: