Bill O'Reilly is Against Gun Owners' Rights

Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Subject to Weather? Pundit Bill O'Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies‏.

Screenshot of man and woman having their guns confiscated in wake of Hurricane Katrina. This really happened in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Bill O'Reilly against the Constitution and the Second Amendment? Well, only under certain weather patterns. What a lame excuse.

During his interview with the founder of the Oathkeepers group, the pundit was quick to say he thinks that Americans need to hand their guns over any time their state government says so.

This happened during Hurricane Katrina, when people logically should have been able to keep their guns, to defend themselves.

Most people who own guns are law abiding citizens. My father owned guns all of his life, and he never broke any laws as long as he was alive. He had one ticket in the 1980's and he beat it. He would not have given his guns over to the state of California because bad weather was brewing, but FOX's O'Reilly sure thinks people like my dad should, and he's wrong.

For all of his ranting and raving about conservative values, the fact that O'Reilly supports gun confiscation during hurricanes shows he is a sham; a mean-spirited, money-driven robot.

He says the Oathkeepers' views on the Second Amendment are extreme. They say Americans shouldn't lose their Constitutional Rights simply because Mother Nature is exercising.

Q Madp of IraqWarHeroes.org who alerted me to this said, "Bill O’Reilly is just another Rosey O’Donnel. Has a private armed security guy but wants REAL Americans to lose their gun rights during an emergency."

This very conservative friend continued by saying, "I knew there was a reason I stopped watching and listening to him. It’s all about the money for this a**hole. Big Talk, but doesn’t believe in the Constitution. He isn’t the only one."

Contrary to what many people believe, most Americans support sane gun ownership, on the basic premise that you can never really remove all of the guns from a country, and for the most part only the legal registered ones can be tracked.

'Sane' gun ownership in my opinion, means having background checks, and supporting the belief that not all weapons should be available to own. It means not supporting gun show sales where background checks are fought tooth and nail by interest groups like the NRA.

But regardless of who you are, O'Reilly thinks your right to bear arms is subject to restriction imposed by state officials, when it is your Constitutional right to possess a weapon, as long as local laws don't already preclude them.

O'Reilly thinks that when it all comes down, and you are faced with having to defend yourself, your family, your home and friends, that is when you need to hand your guns over to the man. He supports that kind of thinking, which is incredible.

And for the record, this is not out of context.

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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com