CNN’s Gagliano: The Founders ‘Could Not Envision’ an 18-Year-Old Buying ‘A Weapon of War’

[livingston]

CNN’s Gagliano: The Founders ‘Could Not Envision’ an 18-Year-Old Buying ‘A Weapon of War’

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Law Enforcement Analyst and retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano stated that the Founding Fathers “could not envision that an 18-year-old kid could go in a gun store, he can’t buy beer, but he could buy a semiautomatic weapon, and it’s a weapon of war.”
. … It has a collapsable stock. It has a pistol grip. It has detachable magazines. We have to make sure that those kinds of things don’t fall into the hands of somebody like this.”

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CNN's Gagliano: The Founders 'Could Not Envision' an 18-Year-Old Buying 'A Weapon of War' | Breitbart

 

[livingston]

From the comments section ...This guy nails it ...

Cartman Keratos • an hour ago


Obviously, considering the number and scope of shootings we've witnessed over the last few years in which the FBI had prewarnings and signs but did nothing, we can conclude that the FBI is unconcerned with stopping them.
Now golly gee, why can it be? How many will be sacrificed to get a national gun ban and have a police state?

 

[wizrd]

When the founding fathers were still around - 14 year olds were commanding warships in naval battles....just saying. You can look it up.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I highly doubt any military would adopt the AR15 as it's main battle rifle. There is a reason for this and that is because it is built for civilian purposes. They keep calling it a "weapon of war" when no army uses it.

 

[togmaster]

At 18 you were a man and had access to guns your whole life. You were able to purchase the most sophisticated and advanced gun made if you had the money. I wish we had those freedoms now.

 

[Celt]

Actually the founders DID expect 18 year olds to buy weapons of war. 16 - 45 year olds were automatically considered part of the unorganized militia (around 1776) , and if you read The Federalist Papers number 46, the founders specifically stated that they expected common citizens , also people who made up the unorganized militia, to have weapons equal to the military.

 

[Phazer]

CNN's Gagliano: The Founders 'Could Not Envision' an 18-Year-Old Buying 'A Weapon of War' | Breitbart

Then it's a good thing he only had an AR-15 and not an assault rifle.

With his psychiatric history, he shouldn't have had any firearms, however.

 

[livingston]

It has detachable magazines.... Just like every semi-automatic pistol... The left will be calling these weapons of war . There are several articles out this week that are beating the drum to get rid of all auto's ... Handguns , shotguns rifles ..

We Should Ban Semi-Automatic Firearms
I’m not generally on the gun control beat, but I’ll repeat my view for the record: semi-automatic weapons should be banned for civilian use. Basically, shotguns, revolvers, and bolt-action rifles would remain legal, and that’s it.

The last time I mentioned this, a bunch of gun folks chimed in to claim I was an idiot. Revolvers are semi-automatic weapons! Ha ha ha. Being the reasonable guy that I am, I was willing to consider them manual load weapons, since it takes human power to advance the cylinder. A true semi-automatic uses the power of expanding gas¹ to chamber a new load. However, if the gun folks consider a double-action revolver to be a semi-automatic, who am I to argue? That just means my list has been revised to include shotguns, single-action revolvers, and bolt action rifles.² In other words, the only legal firearms would be those that require a separate human action to load a new round. There are other details I’d support too, but this is the main thing.

We should ban all semi-automatic firearms

 

[Dr. Evil]

I guess 18 year old's shouldn't be able to join the military and fight for and defend this idiots right to say such stupid things too.

 

[Acer-m14]

The youngest Union soldier and the youngest soldier to fight in the Civil War was a boy named Edward Black. Edward was born on May 30 in 1853, making him just 8 years old when he joined the Union army on July 24, 1861 as a drummer boy for the 21st Indiana volunteers. He is also considered one of the youngest soldiers ever to serve in the history of the U.S. Army.

Black was captured at the Battle of Baton Rouge in August of 1862 but was freed when the Union army won the battle. After the army discharged him in September of 1862, Edward reenlisted with 1st Indiana Volunteer Heavy Artillery in February 1863. He continued fighting until the end of the war and was honorable discharged in February of 1866.

According to the book, The Fighting Men of the Civil War, the youngest Confederate soldier was probably a boy named Charles C. Hay who joined the Alabama regiment when he was eleven years old.

Child Soldiers in the Civil War

 

[Dinkus the Stinkus]

This all stems from the Vietnam War era... They say AR-15 but what they see in their mind is an M16 or M4 depending on the AR.

My father openly admits he would have left the country to avoid the draft. Yet when you ask him why he doesn't really have an answer other than, "I was against the war."

It's the typical cop out method the left always uses. They often don't know why they believe what they believe just that they have to believe it and anyone who disagrees is an idiot and has no idea what they are talking about.

 

[livingston]

I guess 18 year old's shouldn't be able to join the military and fight for and defend this idiots right to say such stupid things too.

Cobb County man remembers Battle of Iwo Jima
COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Eugene Peterson, 94, of Cobb County served three years in the United States Marine Corp. He joined as an 18-year-old, fresh out of high school in 1942 and finished his service in 1945. Then, he found himself on the front lines of history during World War II. He served in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima.

The US Marines invaded Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, and Private First Class Peterson was a part of the five-week campaign which turned out to be one of the most hard-fought battles of World War II.
Peterson is a piece of living history, and when he decided to document his service in writing, mostly for his kids to have an understanding of what he went through, he thought it might be 10-15 pages of material. And 156 pages later, he had written a very unique account of his service during WWII from the perspective of a “grunt.” It is less about gore and killing, and
At the time, PFC Peterson had no idea the historical significance of the battle of Iwo Jima, but his look back at it provides a great perspective and memoir that will give a clear understanding of what the brave men went through on that tiny island.

Cobb County man remembers Battle of Iwo Jima

Tell this man he was not responsible enough to use a gun at age 18.....

Thank you for your service to our country, Mr. Peterson, and thank you for sharing your story in print and with our viewers on Good Day Atlanta. You are a great American hero!
more about the day-to-day, and relationships with fellow servicemen

 

[Saltwater60]

10 year olds probably had the weapons of war back then and hunted with and without their fathers. Nearly everyone had a gun back then and hunted. If not you’d starve. No background checks either.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Back in 1776 an 18 year old was a man, independent, possibly married with children, more mature, maybe went to church, earned a living and wouldn't think about doing something like this.

He planted crops, tended animals and was pissed off at the king's oppression.

He didn't park his ass in front of the TV, post on Facebook or text his friends.

The founders never envisioned an 18 year old eating Tide pods.

This 18 year old is the by product of the previous generation that brought us cable TV, the internet and common core education. The founders never envisioned lies being spread at the speed of light or fake news either.

 

[Bob]

CNN’s Gagliano: The Founders ‘Could Not Envision’ an 18-Year-Old Buying ‘A Weapon of War’

He's right. Most of the time, they were given to them by their fathers. What the founding fathers really couldn't envision was fatherless households.

I wonder of there's correlation there? Nah. Can't be.

 

[Dinkus the Stinkus]

He's right. Most of the time, they were given to them by their fathers. What the founding fathers really couldn't envision was fatherless households.

I wonder of there's correlation there? Nah. Can't be.

What you mean the rise in single mothers either truly single mothers or those whose husband's are just absent "because I work all day and bring home money so I don't have to raise my children."?

Nah couldn't possibly have a correlation...

 

[Catskillkid]

I bet the founders couldn't imagine kids 18 years and under being unsure of their gender identity either. Yet look what we have here today.

 

[Catskillkid]

I bet the founder also couldn't imagine a nation full of people that are so disrespectful to the flag, our customs, and our rule of law governed and protected by the three main documents we were supposed to live by: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. If i could wave a magic wand and resurrect them I would. They'd all either die immediately from shame of what we turned this once great nation into or go on an ass whooping spree. America today is a spoiled, unruly child that needs a good ass whooping.

 

[Robin]

They didn't expect ten year olds would be totally rapt in exercising their first amendment on a smart phone all a twitter, text, and email either.
Robin

 

[GuyMontag]

"The Founding Fathers could not envision an 18yr old kid going into a gun store, he can't buy beer, but he could buy a semi-automatic weapon, and it's a weapon of war..."


The Continental Army was LOADED with teenagers, who used "weapons of war" to win Independence from the British, but that kind of detail doesn't work well when you're selling an agenda.



CNN's "expert" is yet another example of how political stooges with badges are trotted out to promote and validate bullshit agendas by an appeal to authority. This "FBI Supervisory Special Agent in Charge" is an absolute idiot.

CNN's Gagliano: The Founders 'Could Not Envision' an 18-Year-Old Buying 'A Weapon of War' | Breitbart

 

[nortatoga]

Fighting spirit: Teenagers in the American Revolution

 

[E the massive]

But they did envision tyranny, hence the 2A.

 

[Darth]

So change the beer age to 18.

Problem solved.

 

[GOYABEAN]

it's all good when it comes to putting your short life at 18 On the line in foreign land but it's against the law to smoke and drink and purchase a handgun go figure

 

[nortatoga]

Fighting spirit: Teenagers in the American Revolution

 

[Criticalt]

it's all good when it comes to putting your short life at 18 On the line in foreign land but it's against the law to smoke and drink and purchase a handgun go figure

Yea, ok, we heard you!!!

 

[MilesTeg]

This all stems from the Vietnam War era... They say AR-15 but what they see in their mind is an M16 or M4 depending on the AR.

My father openly admits he would have left the country to avoid the draft. Yet when you ask him why he doesn't really have an answer other than, "I was against the war."

It's the typical cop out method the left always uses. They often don't know why they believe what they believe just that they have to believe it and anyone who disagrees is an idiot and has no idea what they are talking about.

I find this to be the case when discussing anything with a liberal.

 

[Celt]

CNN’s Gagliano: The Founders ‘Could Not Envision’ an 18-Year-Old Buying ‘A Weapon of War’


@NirvanaFan @HEX @NYGuns please merge threads

 

[Mosinitis]

Where is the investigation of what was behind FBI's inaction?

 

[Celt]

Where is the investigation of what was behind FBI's inaction?

The FBI is the biggest culprit here. All this talk about gun control is making me sick. In the case of the Las Vegas shooter, it was a failure of the government to provide critical information to the background check system. In this case it was a failure of the FBI to act on legitimate tips. And I'm sure I could Google for 5 minutes and find out more information about recent mass shootings where the government failed to protect the citizenry.