The glaring omission in the liberal crusade for civil liberties: The Second Amendment

[Sailor Steve]

I liked it.

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I liked the comment I read in an article linked by someone else here:

"The second amendment gives people the right to bear muskets, not uzis."

Once again someone gets the whole thing backward. The Bill of Rights doesn't "give" anybody anything. It is a guarantee that the government is not allowed to interfere with our natural, or 'God-given' rights. You seem to live in a world where you are only allowed what the good and gracious government gives you. That is exactly what made America different, and what we are constantly in danger of losing. Actually, the Second Amendment does "give" us the right to own Uzis. I would have to pay a whopping good sum for a Federal Firearms License and register it, but I can indeed own one.

Which is pretty much the same as a comment I made in yet another thread: if "arms" in 2A means any arms, then all Americans should be able to buy their own nukes. Funnily enough, nobody replied to that one.

Okay, I will reply to that one. The main difference there is that we are talking about a weapon that could be used to start a war. If I were as wealthy as Bill Gates I might be able to afford both the weapon and the means to deliver it, but the rest of 'the people' would certainly be endangered by its very existence.

You could also argue for the right to build a radio station so powerful that it could override every other station in the community. Is that part of the right to free speech?