Monday, May 18, 2009

There is a Constitution, Right?

We are going to start here, with the definition of the Second 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."
Yes, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed! Now we will define the word infringed: "to violate or break."
So the founding fathers set it up so the people had a right to keep and bear arms and this was not to be violated or broken. Now why is this? I am not a historian but I have done some studying about this time period to be able to point this out. We do have to remember that our country started out as colonies and each one of these colonies came together, fought the English Crown and won it's independence. But to do this they need to have an army which took some time to put together. This was done by combining each of the states militia which basically was citizens, with guns, that protected their land. From what I remember, one of the things that pushed the colonies over the edge was the Crown trying to ban guns in which left the people with no personal protection which would increase the level of crime whether it was the British soldiers going after the people of the colonies or simple crime amongst the people.
There was a bill, H.R. 17 that was introduced regarding personal possession of guns. Here is the explanation of the bill, "To protect the right to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of self, family, or home, and to provide for the enforcement of such right. "
The bill is there to "protect" the right of obtain firearms? Why? Per the constitution we have the right already to own guns, why would we need to have a bill that protects what we already have?
What I think is going on here since 911 is that what used to be inalienable rights have some how been turned around into privileges. We are so used to being told that we are in danger that this country's government some how switched over to a State of Emergency state of mind. Somehow there is this agreement that we are under constant danger and that the natural rights that we are suppose to have turned in to privileges that someone is allowing us to have.
Lets remember this very important point here, the States run the country per the Bill of Rights.
9th Amendment states, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
10th Amendment states, " 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."
Our States have the right to push the Federal Government to the side and to reinstate their own constitutions and press the reboot button on the Federal Government. What we need to do is to push our States to look at these points of the Bill of Rights and put this country back to its original status. Sphere: Related Content

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