[jjm2111]

Bang!

[45Auto]

"At this time, it is obvious that all levels of government in the US view individual rights as things that exist only because government says so. Our government today has no interest in what "natural rights" are, or what people morally ought to be allowed to do for themselves. Those cities that have strict gun-control laws believe their low level of government has the right to abridge our most fundamental right of self-defense."

And therein lies the problem; if even the lowliest levels of government can so blithely ignore and infringe such a basic right as that of self defense, then in what kind of contempt do they hold liberty itself? Their attitude pits citizen against government at all levels under all circumstances. Is this not the definition of tyranny?

[sourcery]

[HEY4QDEMS]

Walter Williams said "if you are granted by your government the right to play hopscotch, that means you have no particular right to play jacks."

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Walter Williams is an idiot.

[Sender]

Can I get an AMEN brothers and sisters? I know that's right.

[looscnnn]

I agree that people have the right to move somewhere else if they don't like a particular place. Some people won't, some can't, but there are definately some that should.

If the amendments had not be written down, we would have had guns and free speech taken away a long time ago. How could we "prove" that we have the right to protect ourselves when liberals don't follow, or believe in?, natural law/rights. They would say the right to protect ourselves is done by having a military and police.

[Saundra Duffy]

What is the rapist's worst nightmare? A woman with a gun.

[TexasRepublic]

... and when California (or whoever) tells you to start registering weapons so they can come back in two years and confiscate them, the first thing to do is to go live somewhere else.

That is not a long-term solution. You can't run away forever. What happens if all 50 states became equally repressive? I can't think of any foreign country I want to live in. When I'm backed into a corner, you can damn well bet I will come out swinging.

[headsonpikes]

Look for the origin of the 2nd Amendment in England's Bill of Right in 1689.

That right is squarely founded in the right to resist and overthrow a tyrant.

Sovereignty ultimately resides in the people.

[Old Professer]

As he put it, if you are granted by your government the right to play hopscotch, that means you have no particular right to play jacks.

Here in Tennessee it was decided by the state supreme court that rubber ducky races were illegal; since then a referendum authorized a state lottery which has yet to start, but rubber ducky races are still held to be illegal by our AG.