Regarding the German fellow’s comment. For all practical purposes, the right to keep and bear arms actually IS a German or Germanic right. So though it’s not odd that present day Germans “can’t see” or understand the need for the right, it is rather odd. And one wonders if such persons are actually Germans at all. Or did they just happen to be “born” in Germany?

The thirteen colonies demanded the second amendment, and most of the rest of the amendments in the federal Bill of Rights (and the state bills of rights in the wtate constitutions), because these were mostly were Germanic people and they had that tradition. Angles, Saxons, Danes, Franks, and even Visigothic “Spaniards” descend from germanic tribes. Northern Europeans. And even the Celts were remarkably similar, to the extend that Tacitus could often label a group “Celt” or “German” only by whatever side of a river they inhabited.

Remember, folks, Germany really did conquer the world. It was called The British Empire, wasn’t it? And we are all speaking German. Anglish,! eh?

And the reason that “we” won the first and second world wars is there were *more* Germans on our side, he he he. Right?

Society being made up of individuals, the rights of society cannot morally supersede the rights of the individual. Might does not make right, but it does make “able.” Hence the firearm concealed beneath my jacket. It’s my defense against those seven wolves in sheep’s clothing who want to sit down to dinner with me. Right?

But forget about all that for a moment. Most “conservatives” who support gun rights do so for the very same reason that many “liberals” support anti-gun regulation. They’re just brainwashed that way! So their stance amounts to nothing, for all practical purposes, having no intellectual substance.

Someone of real intellect (or at least attention span) would notice something right away upon reading the second amendment.

A certain right “shall not be infringed.” Hmmm… That means that rights can be infringed– and probably have been infringed. So what rights were infringed by our fledgling government?”

Any takers?

Ok. One right that has been infringed is your right to vengeance. That’s been infringed. Encroached. Yes, indeed. Yet traces linger in our jurisprudence, specifically the concept of “fighting words.” Before the infringement, the offender would be required to meet you on a field of honor, or forfeit his honor, and in earlier days, his property and his right to life (meaning anyone who was able, could kill him with impunity).

Rights cannot be taken away by those who have not granted them. They may only be infringed, abridged, encroached upon. Generally, that’s done at the level of the mind, by implanting nonsensical ideas into young children.

It’s also done by tinkering with the language. With the “new, improved product” being fed to young children.

There’s no such thing as human rights, animal rights, or civil rights. Civil privilege, yes; civil rights? Sorry, no.

Rights may only be claimed by “the belligerent claimant in person.” And your favorite lawyer or political hack cannot win them for you.

And remember when there was talk about granting women “the franchise?” Giving women the vote? Voting is not a right. Understand?

Finally, as all rights come with responsibilities attached, no right can ever be taken away or made into a non-right. Because… if one is ready and willing to accept the responsibility that accrues from exercising a right, one may exercise said right, one being physically capable. Right? So long as one knows about the right, of course.

So… what rights do we not know about circa 2007?

Political hacks don’t like to hear things like this, for some odd reason

Salix Albion
“Right” here and now LOL

The Constitution is the supreme source of US law, and it locates the sovereignty of the nation as deriving from the individual, and from no other source.

So, we could debate all day about how it should be, but this is how it is.

This is something that Europeans rarly understand, and it makes all the difference, and explains why the right to bear arms is one of the ultimate rights of American individuals, even though in other countries this right resides with the state.

The history of the Constitution is that the individual states would not have ratified it without the ten amendments – documented history. These amendments were simple protections against tyranny, and they were an essential part of the American people’s adopting the Constitution.

The US is different from Europe in one supreme way: sovereignty of the nation is vested in the individual, not in the state. I was born in Europe, and I can tell you that this sovereignty is an actual feeling that is unknown in Europe.

Until you experience this feeling, with all respect I have to say I am not sure that you can understand the special position of the individual in the US – and the sovereign protections embodied in the Bill of Rights.

Something that even the smartest Europeans have never understood is that our protected right to bear arms is not so we can go hunting, it’s so that as sovereign individuals we can fight against even our government if need be. Government was the only entity that our Founding Fathers really feared.

“The people have the right to bear arms for their defence and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.

I should have included this in my comment above.

Not to clog your blog with comments, but I think this info is worth knowing and passing on in these times where the willfully ignorant man and woman tends to think that he is King (or Queen).