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During Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate in Houston, O’Rourke responded to the moderator’s question about his stance on guns by saying he supported a ban on weapons “designed to kill on the battlefield.”

“In Odessa, I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15…there weren’t enough ambulances to get to them in time,” he said.

“Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15s, your AK-47s, we are not going to allow them to be used against fellow Americans any more,” O’Rourke added.

Republican state representative Briscoe Cain tweeted out a response to O’Rourke later on in the night.

“My AR is ready for you Robert Francis,” Cain said in the tweet.

O’Rourke replied with a tweet of his own, characterizing Cain’s comments as a “death threat” and declaring that neither Cain nor “anyone else” should own an AR-15.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Twitter removed Cain’s tweet and said in a statement that his comments violated its policy against threats of violence.

A press secretary for the O’Rourke campaign told CNN correspondent Leyla Santiago that it was reporting Cain’s remarks to the FBI.

O’Rourke responded Friday morning to reporters asking if Cain’s tweet constituted a death threat by saying, “it sure reads like one to me, and I think it’s a really irresponsible thing for him to do.”

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