GUNS ARE A GOD-GIVEN RIGHT

boblonsberry.com ^ | 06/26/08 | Bob Lonsberry

[STE=Q]

“Those 4 should be impeached and as Rush just said how scary it is for the fate of the Nation to be dependent on how ‘Justice’ Kennedy happens to feel on any given day.”

What Pi**es me off is that everyone is so excited that the great robed ones have affirmed thier constitutional right — as IF they had a right to take it away!

They have no such right!

Those that we entrust to uphold the constitution are busy trying to change it!

They need to be put in their place.

Don’t hold your breath!

STE=Q

[contemplator]

The bill of rights is intended to empower ‘the people’.

The rest of your post makes it clear you understand where power comes from so this statement must have been some left wing phrase that accidentally stuck :) As you know, the Bill of Rights is not intended to empower the people, power inherently belongs to the people as a birthright. The Bill of Rights was intended to clarify that relationship and make special protections just in case either the state or federal governments tried to overstep their bounds. The 10th amendment makes this crystal clear. The 10th Amendment is probably the least quoted of the amendments and yet is the most far reaching and powerful of them all.

[STE=Q]

You write:

“As you know, the Bill of Rights is not intended to empower the people, power inherently belongs to the people as a birthright.”

Well, yes, I make it clear that it delineates what the founders believed were inherent rights.

You further write:

“The Bill of Rights was intended to clarify that relationship and make special protections just in case either the state or federal governments tried to overstep their bounds.”

Any document intended to ‘clarify’ and make special ‘protections’ to our inherent rights — such as the bill of rights — is empowering in the sense that it confirms those inherent rights.

I also understand that these delineated rights do not preclude other rights of the people, as the 10th amendment makes clear:

‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.’

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am10

I agree with you when you say that ‘The 10th Amendment is probably the least quoted of the amendments and yet is the most far reaching and powerful of them all.’

You sound like someone with a great understanding of the constitution.

Thanks for the reply.

STE=Q

[contemplator]

Unfortunately, the prevailing wisdom is that the 10th Amendment is superfluous and unnecessary as it is simply the statement of a ‘truism’. It may be a statement of fact, yet every day laws are passed which infringe on existing rights and go unchallenged. The 10th amendment, like the rest of the amendments was put in as a precaution, yet is is completely ignored for the most part. The flip side of this is that practically every law passed takes away our right to do something or another and that if the 10th were exercised to it’s utmost it would be hard for legislators to pass anything. I suspect this is what the founders had in mind. It’s a shame because anything worth doing should be able to withstand vigorous debate. I’m by no means a constitutional expert, but that’s the way things appear from my corner of the swamp.

[wastedyears]

Nukes are the most powerful, efficient, and strongest deterrent of today’s weapons of war.

Maybe half a suitcase nuke would be good to level a few blocks if ground absolutely must be conceded.

[pgyanke]

Gun is a MAN MADE right. Even freedom of religion is a man made right.

I'm surprised no one else called you on this... it's terribly ignorant of the minds of the Founding Fathers. You can read their minds in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Federalist Papers to see that they understood very well the Natural Law in that man does not confer rights to each other. Each person has inalienable rights endowed in us by our Creator. The only thing man can do is allow or restrict our exercise of these rights.

What is "man-made" is government. To this government, man has conferred certain and defined powers and authorities for the common good.

[Centurion2000]

What Pi**es me off is that everyone is so excited that the great robed ones have affirmed thier constitutional right — as IF they had a right to take it away!

No, everyone is excited because the last (ammo) box did not have to be used. I truly believe that a civil war was averted over this decision.

[Maurice Tift]

The line has to be somewhere between a pea shooter and a nuclear weapon, but where and why?

  I think it's all about an individual defending his home. A nuclear weapon is overkill for home defense, but a pea shooter loaded with tranquilizer darts is a neat trick and a shot gun loaded with rock salt is quite an attention getter. A fallout shelter with an inventory of tazers, flash grenades and tear gas becomes a deterrent when enough people own them. It's really the little things we do that will someday make no knock home invasions a thing of the past.