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Originally Posted by Fly320s
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Just to clarify what our 2nd Amendment does: It protects our right to arms; it does not grant the right to arms. It limits the government's authority to regulate arms. The right to keep and bear arms is a natural right. It is inherent to being a US citizen. It is a God given right and that is a right that can not be taken away by government.
The scholars who created this country knew exactly what they were saying when they wrote the Constitution. The Constitution establishes our country and limits what powers the government has. The first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, is a list of limitations to the government's powers. The founding fathers knew that these individual rights were so important, that they had to place strict limits on the government authority so that the government couldn't infringe on these rights.
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Your first paragraph is confusing. I agree, the 2a doesn't grant us the right to own arms. We have to pass reasonable screening.
No god I know of has even mentioned guns once.
Our founding fathers knew that their work was not handed to them by a burning bush on a mountaintop. They included provisions to change most everything!
Murf