BOB COSTAS: DID FOUNDERS WANT US BUYING ‘COP-KILLER, ARMOR PIERCING BULLETS?’
by AWR HAWKINS – Breibart News
On the March 20 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas laughed off criticism of his many pro-gun control comments and added to them by asking if people really believe the Founding Fathers wanted “private citizens… to purchase cop-killer, armor-piercing bullets” and an “AK-47″?
He said that people who answer these questions in the affirmative need to take their line of thinking “to its logical conclusion.” And that means, “if you are fearful [of] a tyrannical government taking away your rights as citizens then you ought to have a bazooka, you ought to have a tank, you ought to be able have nuclear weapons if you can get them before ISIS can get their hands on them.”
Well Bob Costas tried to frame this in the most repugnant way possible, but to answer his quest – Yes, Bob, they most certainly did.
Like many other people who fancy themselves Constitutional Scholars and think they understand the true meaning of the Constitution, Costas here actually has very little understanding of our Founding Fathers intentions.
The reason is simple; Bob likes to parrot other propagandists who make invalid yet good sounding arguments. Often times they interpret the 2nd Amendment as the right to bear arms for hunting and sport.
More often, people like Bob like to point out that only militias were intended to own guns; and since we don’t have legal militias anymore there is no need to own a gun.
The most recent cry from the anti-gun establishment on this issue is that our Founders never intended us, civilians, to have high powered assault style weapons. They intended us to forever have flint lock weapons.
Sadly, for all of these misguided folks, they are all wrong. There need not be any kind of personal interpretation of the right to bear arms in the United States. All they need to do to understand our Founders intention is to read the Federalist Papers.
Madison, among others, make it clear that the intention of American citizens to have un-infringed gun rights is (among other things) to defend ourselves against a potential tyrannical government.
To Bob Costas and his misinformed friends, may I suggest yous tart with Federalist Papers #46?
