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To: Mafe

I’m against repealing the 2nd Amendment, but repealing it wouldn’t do a freaking thing unless there was also a new amendment authorizing the feds to regulate gun ownership. The 2nd Amendment only confirms the pre-existence of rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and presumed in the Constitution. Our right to bear arms exists and is constitutionally protected with or without the 2nd Amendment.

“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.” Article [II] (Amendment 2 – Bearing Arms)

Notice the right to bear arms in the 2nd Amendment along with the other unalienable rights in the first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given, not man or government given. 2nd Amendment says the feds cannot “INFRINGE” on the pre-existing right to bear arms. The first ten amendments including the 2nd do NOT grant rights. They merely REMIND government not to violate those rights. Totalitarian governments “grant” rights. A free people know their rights come from God and know they cannot be separated from those rights.


5 posted on 02/26/2018 2:34:40 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
the first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given, not man or government given.

Ah, there's a problem.
No God, no unalienable rights.
One of the many reasons God is being removed from society.

That would leave the government to bestow or not 'rights'.

19 posted on 02/26/2018 3:13:07 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: Jim 0216; Delta 21
"first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given"

Now you know why the regressives are trying so hard to push out God from our culture.

A couple days ago Delta 21 posted this. Very accurate and concise review of the last 40 years of a certain political party.(or at this point maybe both.)


37 posted on 02/26/2018 4:54:40 PM PST by lizma2
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