SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Responds to Anti-Gunners in Blunt Series of Messages By Chris Agee
March 22, 2018 at 11:56am
As new advocates for gun control have emerged in the wake of recent mass shootings, particularly last month’s massacre at a Florida high school, those on the other side of the debate argue such proposals would infringe on the Second Amendment.
Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who says he fired the shots that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is one pro-gun advocate making that argument on Twitter.
In a series of tweets this week that included numerous interactions with individual users who had different opinions, he defended his views against arguments commonly used by gun-control supporters.
“The second amendment wasn’t composed so we could hunt,” he wrote in one post.
A number of Democrat leaders, including former President Barack Obama, have defended the rights of hunters against attempts to impost stricter gun laws.
“If you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were 10, and you went out and spent the day with him and uncles, and that became part of your family’s traditions, you can see why you’d be pretty protective of that,” Obama said in a 2013 interview.
O’Neill and others, however, argue that America’s founders included the right to bear arms not to preserve hunting traditions but to offer citizens a means of protecting themselves.
He later tweeted his opinion that America’s “children are out of control,” not its guns.
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Poster Comment:
Read the 2nd for yourself and you decide what it means. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is the last defense against tyranny in government.
The Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791. It reads:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."