Paul Adinolfi: The gun industry has been getting away with murder

newstimes.com ^ | 1/26/2016 | Paul Adinolfi

[rktman]

The Second Amendment is our only national gun law, and when it was written, they did not have a weapon of mass destruction - the AR-15, which can fire off hundreds of shots in the time a musket could only fire one. The Second Amendment only adds to our gun violence problems.

[NorthMountain]

Facts are irrelevant to the gun control nuts.

Crime control and safety are also irrelevant to the gun-control freaks. It's not about guns, it's about controlling YOU.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The high speed printing press, radio, television, and the Internet are not in the Constitution but would you argue that they are not covered by the 1st Amendment?

[Bubba_Leroy]

It should always be noted that the Bill of Rights (including the Second Amendment) does not grant the people any rights or prohibit the people from any acts. The Bill of Rights was enacted solely to further restrict the already limited federal government from ever attempting to take certain inalienable rights from the people.

Unfortunately, the Constitution now says whatever the Hell five out of nine Supreme Court Justices currently want it to say.

[immadashell]

Governments hate rights. Rights exist to prevent governments from doing things like what they did in Oregon yesterday. Without citizen rights unlimited government would be totally out of control. The Constitution is the result of the actions of King George III’s uncontrolled violation of unwritten citizen rights.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I hope you told him that the first gun control laws were enacted to keep guns out of the hands of slaves so they couldn’t revolt.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

The Founding Fathers owned CANNON (in fact, some private cannon were loaned to the Revolutionary Army). So this guy has no clue what he is talking about...

[NorthMountain]

It should always be noted that the Bill of Rights (including the Second Amendment) does not grant the people any rights or prohibit the people from any acts.

Concur. In all cases, the language of the Bill of Rights strongly implies rights already in existence, enjoyed by We the People. In all cases, the language of the Bill of Rights is that of prohibition directed toward government entities.

[JimRed]

...when the Second Amendment was written, there were not roving gangs of teenage boys shooting each other and anyone else who gets in the way in all of the major cities (all of which suffer from strict gun control laws and are liberal infested).

Small edit.

[ealgeone]

We also didn’t have the mass communication means back then we do today. If he wants to go back to the quill and ink well and set presses we can talk. Until then.

[Secret Agent Man]

If that is rue then Planned Parenthood has not only got away with millions of murders but directly profited from every single one.

[Secret Agent Man]

Far more folks die in car accidents. Guess car companies are getting away with a lot more murders.

[rktman]

But, in Texas/Houston, they’re prosecuting the investigators and not ‘pp’. Seems that one of the prosecuters in the DA’s office is on the “pp” board of directors. No conflict there.

[Vic S]

The high speed printing press, radio, television, and the Internet are not in the Constitution but would you argue that they are not covered by the 1st Amendment?

Shhh, don't give them any ideas (although they've probably already got a plan.)

[Sans-Culotte]

The Second Amendment is our only national gun law, and when it was written, they did not have a weapon of mass destruction - the AR-15, which can fire off hundreds of shots in the time a musket could only fire one.

Yawn. They also didn't have "gay marriage" and transgenders and all the other crap the left has foisted on us based on some ridiculous reading of the Constitution.

[i_robot73]

Let’s be CORRECT now, please. Bad enough to fall into a trap of semantics for being ‘lazy’:

The 2nd Amendment REAFFIRMS the inalienable Right of all individuals (We the People), from our Creator. Any/all gun ‘laws’ infringe upon that Right, and are thus illegal and unconstitutional.

[Graybeard58]

the AR-15, which can fire off hundreds of shots in the time a musket could only fire one.

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That is just rong. It doesn’t take that long to fire a musket. Now if he’s talking about loading time, that is different.

[Rinnwald]

Man, they don’t like that AR-15.

Guess I should buy a third one.

[Cobra64]

I'd like to see the liberal moron deal with this situation without a firearm:

[rlmorel]

Liberals are brainless.

I was listening to the mayor of Memphis (I think it was a little while back) talking about race and how black lives don’t have value, and he cited the Three-fifths Compromise as an institutional example of how black lives mean less than white lives.

I swear, I have heard people like him before, but you would think even brainless-ninny racists would take the time to understand the context and reality of that particular reference.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

When the Second Amendment was written, they weren’t any police departments nor dozens of federal agencies with FULLY automatic weapons, tanks, drones, helicopters, etc. and the willingness and desire to use them.