[OneWingedShark]

The Constitution of the land gave us freedom of speech as our First Amendment, even protecting the Westboro Baptist Church, desecraters of soldiers' funerals, as a necessary evil to protect a greater good for the nation.

A minor point, but worth arguing, is that the Constitution does not GIVE rights, it ACKNOWLEDGES them... for what the Government can give, via Constitutional Amendment, it can also take away.

[blackbart.223]

"A minor point, but worth arguing, is that the Constitution does not GIVE rights, it ACKNOWLEDGES them."

This is not a minor point it is the only point.

[TheWriterTX]

Hey, OneWinged!

Great minds think alike, I see.

The point you raised is critical, not minor. Our rights supercede any form of government. The power rests not with the State, but the individual.

Articles that inadvertantly suggest otherwise, even well intentioned ones, only reinforce the misnomer that the government is arbitor of our rights, or that rights are constructs of the state instead of an integral, inherent, inalienable component of our humanity.

Therein lies the essential difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives recognize this truth; liberals presume otherwise.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Exactly, even if the BOR was repealed, the rights would still exist. Repealing the 2nd Amendment would NOT remove the RKBA, it would only give the government the power to infringe upon that right, as if it doesn’t already.