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originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Eilasvaleleyn
shall not be infringed.
That is the part that I am having trouble figuring out where people do not understand, what part of that is unclear?
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: sycomix
That is the part that I am having trouble figuring out where people do not understand, what part of that is unclear?
Not infringed, not encroached upon, not legislated away bit by bit which is exactly what they are / been doing.
The law makers are not even to begin to infringe upon the right of private citizens to keep and carry arms.
Keeping them at home and carrying them about is the only way to guarantee ones safety in say ohhh, like what happened at that club, school room, movie theatre or college or mall or… (the next one).
originally posted by: Azureblue
a reply to: Eilasvaleleyn
Where, in any statute the word "granted" is appears, it is not a right but a privilege. Why is this so? A right cannot be taken away, a privilege is discretionary and can be withdrawn.
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.
originally posted by: Azureblue
a reply to: Eilasvaleleyn
Where, in any statute the word "granted" is appears, it is not a right but a privilege. Why is this so? A right cannot be taken away, a privilege is discretionary and can be withdrawn.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.