[Nifster]

just another a$$ hat

[Clock King]

I honestly wish we could leave these people in the hell hole they want to live in.

[Hardraade]

What he means is the only absolute right belongs to his own islamo/socialist/nazists.

They can’t chop his head off fast enough for me.

[stormhill]

I don’t get it...why are we wasting time on this fascist?

[TigersEye]

Will the author then agree that his right to live can be
legally rescinded without any causal action on his part?
That would be equivalent to gun control laws imposed
on law abiding citizens.

[Maceman]

Here’s one restriction on the Bill of Rights that I’d wager most conservatives would happily approve of. In 1988, the HHS under Reagan promulgated rules prohibiting a family-planning professional at a clinic that received federal dollars from “promoting” (i.e. telling a woman about) abortion. This was challenged partially on free-speech grounds. In Rust v. Sullivan (1991), the Supreme Court held that these rules did not violate the clinicians’ free-speech rights. So far as I can see, this is still law. It’s just one example from many free-speech restrictions that have been imposed over the years, as you can see here.

This is a stupid, disingenuous example. The law he describes in no way interferes with freedom of speech. It simply says that you can't say certain things and expect to get government funding. Since there can be no inherent inalienable right to government funding, there is no violation of any right here.

FAIL.

[Robert357]

Dear Mr. Tomasky;

“...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...”

Now if you want to do away with self evident truths such as the God given right to self defense, then read what good citizens should do.

Good luck.

[UCANSEE2]

Is the rest of the article as bad as the excerpt?

[RC one]

The right to self defense is absolute and that most especially includes the right to defend one's self against a tyarnical government. This isn't a right that a government granted, it is a right endowed to all free men by their creator that was recognized and codified as part of the supreme law of this land and, as such, no government of this nation has the authority to deny it and if they attempt to do so, free men are well advised to disregard such laws should they be enacted and to offer up all manner of resistance as necessary.

It was our forefather's intention that we were to be their masters and that means they intended for us to be well armed and for them to be small and minimally obtrusive.

[KrisKrinkle]

Can we all agree that I absolutely have the right to bear arms on your property whether you permit it or not and any law saying I don’t have that right is an infringement?

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder if the writer believes there are any ‘absolute’ lefts ?

[sten]

i say this turd’s ability to free speech should be rescinded and force him to get a permit, approved by a popular vote, before allowing him to speak again. from that point, if he does anything to offend anyone, his free speech would be permanently retracted

if it’s ok for the 2nd amendment... it should be done to the 1st

[Kickass Conservative]

Funny how the wisdom of our Nation’s Forefathers comes down to four words included in the Second Amendment to the Constitution, “Shall Not Be Infringed”.

As I always ask those who want to “amend” the Constitution, why is it that the only Amendment that uses the phrase “Shall Not Be Infringed” is the Second Amendment?

It doesn’t say, may, could, should or unless Obama wants to, it says SHALL NOT be infringed. That is all I need to know.

I thank God every day that I was born an American. Too bad half of the people living in this Great Country don’t realize how fortunate they really are, like the Marxist Usurper and his Wife living in the White Hut on our dime.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Typical commie. What would you expect. We could crash the FreeRepublic servers with the articles written last week alone by America’s various anti-gun commies. This is nothing new.

[Secret Agent Man]

we have rights because God gave us rights.

right to life - no murder, we are people made in God’s image, you are not allowed to unjustly destroy a person made in the image of God

right to self defense up to killing in self defense - to preserve right to life

God’s laws define rights and set up just and unjust reasons for taking a life.

libtards who hate God ignore where our human history of laws and precedents come from.

[Gene Eric]

>> the howl then transmutes into an extended harangue that this right is absolute, and no libtard fascist,

You’re a dick, Tomasky.

[RedHeeler]

Apparently, Mikey, you write a column, with no regard to the First Ammendment. Cool. 1st yr Haarvad, 2nd yr Yaalie, or 8th year grad dumb azz?

[muir_redwoods]

I’m not asking for an absolute right. I’m not asking for the right to shoot deer in a Walmart parking lot. I’m not asking for the right to wave a pistol at another driver during road rage. I’m not asking for the right to own a howitzer.

I demand the right to keep and bear arms. Period

[ArrogantBustard]

Every time I write a column on guns, the howl

Lost me right there. The author is a turd.

[M Kehoe]

Question for Mr. Tomasky: Does the First amendment have 20,000 laws restricting it?

Oh, and Tomasky, self defense isn't granted by a government, it's given to us by G-d.

5.56mm