Posted on 09/07/2016 10:14:56 AM PDT by tcg
...We live in a precarious time in the United States of America. Many citizens are concerned about efforts to infringe upon the rights delineated in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution. As a constitutional lawyer who spent much of my career defending the fundamental Rights to Life and Religious Freedom, I share their concern.
However, one of those Rights is found in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which 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."...
My purpose is to attempt to clarify the language of the broader debate and then to set the issue in a context for my readers, most of whom are Catholic Christians or Christians of another community. That requires a precision of language which is too often not present in our dialogue and discussion concerning guns and the right to self-defense.
Only Human Persons Have Human Rights...
In an age of sound bites and agenda driven news reports, the architects of a new cultural order have slipped one more phrase into the lexicon of the cultural struggle. I maintain that we adopt at our own peril. The phrase is "Gun Rights". Guns have no rights. People do. The real Right at issue is the Right to Self Defense. That includes the right to keep and bear arms.
Rights are goods of human persons. Human Rights come not from a civil government but from God. Civil Rights are those rights recognized by the Civil Government and properly protected. Again, Human Rights do not come from the government. They come from God. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
Always remember, it’s democrats committing the violent gun crimes, not republicans.
I get angry at liberals who claim they have a right to food, shelter, and medical care. You DO NOT have the right to anything if another must labor for it!
“Democrats are unlikely to talk Republicans out of gun ownership because it comes off as “Put down your gun so I can shoot you.””
- Scott Adams, Dilbert
The Left doesn’t give a rat’s *ss about the Bill of Rights - or the constitution, either, for that matter.
Speaking of which... I’m looking for a new AR10 for me and an AR15 for my wife. If anyone has a trusted resource, please send me a link.
You have only the rights you are willing to defend with deadly force.
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