Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: 1L
Our government was instituted to protect and defend individual Rights.

If the "rules" (made by any entity) are so cumbersome that you cannot vigorously exercise your Rights, then those Rights have been illegally infringed upon.

Suppose your company bans guns. Now you can't "keep and bear arms" for 50 hours a week.

Now suppose your state bans open carry. Then you can't "bear" arms at any time, save for those few hours a month you are at a range.

Then trains and planes ban guns. Now you can exercise your Right even less.

So basically, through no action of the federal government, your Rights have been severely violated. What recourse are a Free people to have? Are we simply supposed to move to another state, every time they infringe upon our Rights. Or quit our jobs? Or walk to our destination instead of taking a train?

Do you really think *this* is what our Founders had in mind when they shed blood in defense of Liberty? Do you think when Jefferson, etc.... wrote about Freedom, they had in mind a bunch of bureaucratic needledicks that could make "policy" to effectively eviscerate these Rights?

Quite the contrary, they created a gov't whos primary purpose was to defend our individual Rights. Be it from foreign or domestic enemies.

136 posted on 07/23/2004 9:11:28 PM PDT by Mulder (All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.-- Samuel Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 126 | View Replies ]


To: Mulder
Suppose your company bans guns. Now you can't "keep and bear arms" for 50 hours a week.

Unless the government forces all employers to ban firearms(*), you have every right to seek out an employer who won't.

(*) Unfortunately, the courts are trying to do precisely that.

158 posted on 07/23/2004 11:20:20 PM PDT by supercat (Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson