If you care to read a few words out of that “little book”, as CNN’s Piers Morgan recently described it, you will find the Constitution was written solely to form a government so that we might enjoy the blessings of liberty. That government was designed from the bottom up with limited powers in order to protect the rights the Creator gives to all humans by right of birth, rights that exist outside of any government.
Members of the media understand that a free press is essential to preserve liberty and protect the country from a government run amok. What member of the media would have said we must preserve the First Amendment just in case some future president attempts to subvert the electoral process or we need to publish some classified Pentagon papers about a costly war? Previously the First was best known for shielding the publishing of pornography. Yet if it had not been for the reporting of Woodward and Burstein during the Watergate coverup, or Daniel Ellsberg’s publishing of a classified study about the Vietnam War who knows what other outrages would have followed?
The right to freely publish expression in speech, media and in internet commentary is such a precious component of protecting our liberties from a government run amok that it is my duty to pass the First Amendment on to my grandchildren just in case some future outrage threatens the country.
Similarly, just because I may not need to fully exercise the pre-existing rights recognized in the Second Amendment that doesn’t relieve me of the duty and obligation to pass those rights fully and unencumbered to my grandchildren just in case they must exercise them to protect their liberty.
The truth is that nobody can know how or why some future government will attempt to break free of the powers the Constitution limits it to, nor how it may abuse the enumerated powers it clearly has. So while I may not really need this particular style of rifle at this moment anymore than I really need 30, 10, or even five or six pages of Hustler Magazine. I am obligated to make sure my children and grandchildren can freely exercise those very same rights or else I have not been a good citizen, nor even a good parent.
the low info voters think rights are homo marriage, abortion etc and they;’re not, our rights are in the constitution and I have more right to have a gun than be married so Bloomberg and the great unwashed low info masses, F=off.
As for the media, WHAT MEDIA?
They’;re nothing but a mouth peice fro the left and their socialist agenda and our party writes a letter , WTH is that B/S, GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT BACK, CALL THIS WHAT IT IS AND DO SOMETHING
Well said, and correct.
As a naturalized citizen from England, it really p*ssed me off when Piers tossed aside, what he called, “your little book”. He’s so incredibly arrogant, doesn’t understand that he doesn’t understand the constitution. He doesn’t respect it. He’s fine with the 1st amendment, it allows him the freedom to speak his garbage - but he doesn’t seem to realize that the the 2nd amendment has equal weight, it is the means to enforce the 1st amendment.
I’m embarrassed by this guy. I don’t think he realizes how he looks to those outside of NY. Most Americans despise foreigners that come here and try to tell them how America “should be” - especially when they don’t respect (or know much about) the constitution and even more so coming from an Englishman. ...let’s just say I went through an awakening, I know the Piers Morgan’s of the world, I used to think like him.