Fox News Analyst Goes Off: 'Pathetic' We're Too Wrapped Up Around AR-15s to Protect Children

Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Petersrecently wrote "no private citizen should own an automatic weapon or a semi-automatic weapon that can easily be modified for automatic effects," and he defended his position to Neil Cavuto this morning.

In his column for The New York Post , Peters asked, "How can members of our Congress or state legislators put their re-election campaigns above the lives of children? How can they do that?"

He told Cavuto he's a supporter of a Second Amendment but not "the cherry-picking of it," adding, "I'm a gun owner. I know guns. My family's a gun family... but these weapons, AR-15s and similar weapons, are not for sporting purposes."

"Having those weapons in civilian hands," he said, "is absolute madness."