Thursday, February 23, 2012

The State Giveth, the State Taketh Away

Under proposed House Bill 981, a piece of legislation that co-sponsor Rep. Sean Jerguson, R-Holly Springs, is confident will pass, Georgians would have the right to carry concealed weapons in some traditionally banned places. [More]
They already have that right--no bill could award it or take it away.  It's just that some presumptuous usurpers who were initially hired with the idea that they'd be servants have decided they have the authority to recognize it--or not.


This is more than a mere semantics argument. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who ought to know better talking about how the Second Amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms.

2 comments:

Glenn B said...

The 2nd Amendment does not give us the right to keep and bear arms, that right comes from higher authority. It does however assure us that that right shall not be infringed or in other words that the liberty to exercise that right shall not be taken away from us because a militia is always necessary to assure a free state. It does not, do something else either, it does not restrict the right to keep and bear arms dependent on if you are a militia member or not, something many seem to think is a needed part of the right. The right itself is only mentioned in that it shall not be infringed and the right itself is not dependent upon the need for a militia.


Now, you may agree or disagree but I think that here was a good chance the Founding Fathers believed that rights could be infringed by restriction of liberty, under certain circumstances, if not by the federal Government then by those of the States. Had they not believed such, they would never have written the 'shall not be infringed' clause into the 2nd Amendment alone. It would have been in every other amendment to the Constitution or would have been an amendment on its own and applied to our liberty to exercise all of our rights. They did think highly of the right to keep and bear arms, so highly as to make it such that the government may not infringe upon it, at least not legally.

Anonymous said...

And then you have this quote from here:

Open carry is a right. Concealed carry is a privilege.

From a "gun rights advocate" whose been brainwashed by opencarry.org and vcdl.org's baseless mantra. They're doing a lot of good, but that assertion is so off base, it's not even funny.