Because just two days after the worst one-man massacre in US history is the perfect time to release a video calling on all Americans to buy guns just like the killer used. I mean, clearly if everyone at the dance club had been packing AR-15s, too, nothing could have possibly happened, right?
Yeesh.
'I guarantee if the Founding Fathers had known this gun would have been invented, they wouldn’t have rewritten the Second Amendment, they would have fortified it in stone. Because they knew the only way for us to stay free was by having whatever guns the bad guys have.'
Yes, it says it right there in the Second Amendment: "Having whatever guns the bad guys have being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
'This firearm gives people the advantage they so desperately need …'
Well, if the "bad guys" have AR-15s, it's not much of an advantage.
'… and deserve to protect their life, liberty, and happiness.'
You deserve an AR-15.
You'd never know that Sig Sauer, the manufacturer of the AR-15 used in Orlando, was a corporate donor to the NRA, would you?
Timothy Johnson
Days after a gunman used an assault weapon in a terror attack that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others, the National Rifle Association released a video urging Americans to buy assault weapons to protect against terrorists and other threats.According to the NRA video, Americans should buy assault weapons to “protect their life, liberty,
#legalizegrenadelaunchers …
+Doug Dunfee That would certainly give you an advantage. Unless the bad guys were already in the house, in which case it might be counter-productive.
"To bear arms" has always meant "to be part of an army".
It still means that.
Somehow they made it sound like "own and use weapons for shits and giggles and overthrowing the government".
+Andreas Geisler The US Supreme Court [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller] has decided that the Second Amendment includes a right for individual bearing of arm outside of organized armed forces, though that right is not absolute and the states can regulate it to some degree.
1 shot breach loaders are all a good hunter needs, one shot 1 kill, NRA is in the pocket of the gun manufactures. as for those that think these weapons would protect them form the government, I would like to remind them of M1 Abrams tanks, Drones, MRAPS……
You don't stand a chance, mental midgets.
+Dave Hill But again "bearing arms" is a pretty specific wording, with pretty specific (if archaic) meaning.
So, it includes a right for individuals to own weapons outside of armed forces…
+Philipp Giddings It seems very clear that the NRA is the lobbying arm of the gun manufacturers.
That said, while it seems doubtful that even the nation's home armories of weapons could defeat the armed forces, they would be a threat for purposes of asymmetric warfare should the dreaded Gubbiment Tyranny ever come to pass.
I'm sure they have their own lobbyists, more like the propaganda arm to influence public opinion, although I am immune to their bull.
Shouldn't the 2nd Amendment require Americans to be armed at all times, as it's "necessary to the security of a free State"?
+Scott Randel The NRA and its corporate sponsors fully endorse that position. Except for, y'know, Undesirable Types.
I see that the Senate has rejected four gun control measures, including one which would prevent the sale of firearms to suspected terrorists. Even they must be able to
buy guns. It's in the second amendment!