ttystikk
Well-Known Member
I hate to be such a pain in the ass, but would like to point out that the constitution conveys no rights upon anyone. The second amendment does not give you a right to posses a gun, it makes the government powerless to do anything to restrict that right. Rights cannot come from pieces of paper for if they could then the paper could be rewritten and then they wouldn't really be rights, they would just be temporary privileges. I think it is necessary to point out that rights come from being a human being, not from a piece of paper.
Sadly, an important distinction lost on most of those here, as is its corollary; with freedoms come the responsibility to protect them.