From My Cold Dead Hand

The Event ^ | 07/28/2012 | Jay Pounder

[jaypounder]

“From My Cold Dead Hand!!!”

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

-Thomas Jefferson

As you read the first lines of this post you may think… “Geez Jay… enough with the gun control issue already!" Well my friends… today’s post really isn’t about that at all… it’s about the bigger picture of our given rights and how we are systematically loosing them rapidly.

Yes… that’s right… your losing them faster than you think. Our rights are important. They are the backbone of our country. Its why 25,700 people died! All for the sake of this document.

So what do you really know about your rights?

If I asked you today, could you tell me what the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments of the constitution) said or summarize it for me … could you?

http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/

[Copenhagen Smile]

I hate when politicians and people say, "I support the second amendment right for to people to hunt and..."

The second is NOT about hunting! It has nothing to do with sporting and everything to do with defending yourself and you God-given liberties against government encroachment.

[shibumi]

"So what do you really know about your rights?"

For one thing, I know that nobody "gave" them to me as stated in your post.

I also know the difference between "your" and you're."

I also know I don't need to give you a hit with a teaser like this.

By the way, how's your Looney Bun, Benny?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

You need to go through that blog slowly, one word at a time, and proofread it. Glaring errors in spelling and composition might not be noticed by everyone, but they diminish the credibility of the author.

[MileHi]

Hey n00b! If you think your collection of words is worth reading, why did you excerpt?

[humblegunner]

and how we are systematically loosing them rapidly.

Loose the hounds!

[shibumi]

Know your audience.

"If I asked you today, could you tell me what the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments of the constitution) said or summarize it for me … could you?"

Fully three fourths (if not more) of the FReepers you are addressing could recite it for you verbatim. That means word-for-word for those of you in Spokane.

[Slings and Arrows]

[upchuck]

why did you excerpt?

See S&A's reply number eight. 'nuff said.

[MileHi]

LOL

A picture and all that

[Sherman Logan]

With all due respect, Jay, learn to write before posting more of your stuff.

For one thing, your column implies Americans fought the Revolution to protect the Bill of Rights.

Which of course did not exist till well after the end of the Revolution.

Oddly, your claim would be somewhat accurate if you expanded it. The Revolution was essentially fought to defend against what Americans saw as threats to their freedoms which were largely spelled out in the 1689 Bill of Rights as passed after the Glorious Revolution in Britain. I doubt one American in 100 is familiar with this original Bill of Rights, but those rights are what we fought for in the Revolution.

[353FMG]

As Americans we have been given more individual rights through the US Constitution than any other citizens in this world have.

Not fair.

The UN has always been trying to ‘level the playing field’, not so much by trying to obtain more rights for others, but by trying to diminish the rights established for American citizens.

Wake up folks, this is the whole idea of the ‘one world government’ BS that both dhimmicrat and GOP politicians and presidents advocate. The UN is all about UN supremacy paid for with American contributions.