[Cold Heat]

Our rights are from God. They must not be willingly surrendered. Read the very short book by F. Bastiat, "The Law".

As far as I know, nobody has surrendered any rights.

The legal authority is under the commerce law the the courts have granted.

As far as I know, God has not weighed in on this matter.

[GatekeeperBookman]

"As far as I know, nobody has surrendered any rights."

Our rights are restricted by ten's of thousands of so called 'gun control laws'. These are surrenders & should not stand.

There are fresh proposals daily, to end gun ownership-even through indirect means such as taxation.

"The legal authority is under the commerce law the courts have granted."

The commerce clause was intended to regulate interstate commerce ( to avoid conflict among the states & facilitate trade-not end it ). It was not meant to restrict the God given rights acknowledged by the Bill of Rights. The Supreme's recently over-turned one Texas law, explaining this very clearly. Gun free school zones was the point of the law-the commerce clause was unsuccessfully employed to justify the law.

"As far as I know, God has not weighed in on this matter."

The very acknowledgment of our rights in the Bill of Rights, is founded on centuries old knowledge, of how the world works-as described by some old texts commonly known as the Bible, The Torah, et al. The Constitution & other founding documents make clear reference to God's authority & then go on to employ logic & His authority for our rights & the actions of the founders.

If you require assistance in finding this explained, logically & very clearly, in a brief and quite SECULAR text, try reading Mr. Bastiat. The Law is actually referred to as a political work. God weighed in on this many centuries ago-by the very act of our creation. If you doubt His authority, then you are beyond any understanding-as Mr. Limbaugh has famously said, about Libertarians-"You're on your own". I perceive that you are. I wish you Good luck.

I am grateful for the opportunity to make my humble observations.

That Sir, is as far as I know, at this early morning moment

[TexasCowboy]

"As far as I know, nobody has surrendered any rights."

WS, you've been around here for awhile.
You're not that naive.
We've given up so many rights that we are merely a shadow of the Republic as it once stood.

Your ideas are reflected very well in Feinstein's comments:
"Who needs an assault weapon?"
"Who needs a .50 caliber weapon?"
NO ONE has the right to tell another person what they fricking NEED!

Republicans are going to be surprised at the backlash.
There are still many hundreds of thousands of us who still believe in the Second Amendment.

[gatex]

"The legal authority is under the commerce law the the courts have granted..."

And you agree that the commerce clause overrides the Second Amendment ?