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Originally posted by parabellum*:
Your right to keep and bear arms does not emanate from the Constitution. The Constitution acknowledges the RKBA as a preexisting, God-given right and merely states that the government will not interfere with this natural right.

Amen.

Second Amendment, Second Amendment, Second Amendment, over and over.

Yes, the Second Amendment is important, but just as the Declaration of Independence didn’t give us the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, if we believe that the Amendment is the basis for the right to keep and bear arms, then we believe that we would no longer have the right to own and employ effective weapons for our self-defense (to cite only one right) if it were repealed.

* https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/5130055515




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Absolutely, I would be afraid to guess what percentage of the public thinks the Constitution “gives” us these right.


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