Founders Intention for Government - Constitutional Carry

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Almost all conversations taking place today, regarding the 2nd Amendment, are based on the perception that The Government (Fed/State) has the ability through legislation or fiat to take away our Rights, because they are not inherent but granted --- most think Gun Rights are granted by the 2nd Amendment --- therefore, they are actually privileges --- they're simply misnamed as Rights...

Even most gun owners do not begin their discussion of Gun Rights with a Founder's perception of People's Rights -vs- Government Power...

The Government may use excessive power to trample upon your Rights, they may use confinement to keep you from exercising your Rights, they may brainwash you into thinking you have no Rights and they may even sufficiently guilt you into denying you have Rights, but they simply cannot prevent you from having nor take from you that which is inherent.

The Founders understood that having a firm grasp of eternal concepts was critical for people to be able to sustain a protracted battle against those who would willingly violate and denigrate Individual Rights. It is critical that we never forget their understanding of our Rights as God-given and inalienable, inherently ours. Unfortunately, the people who followed them in power (and in society in general) slowly lost sight of the value of those eternal concepts and principles.

The Founders intended that government would be the last resort for accomplishing things - things that just couldn't be accomplished by a few individuals but required large participation to succeed --- like national defense and a level playing field for national commerce. But they expected that goverment would be strictly limited to those areas detailed in the Constitution and would be constrained to do so by the US Supreme Court.

They believed that ALL POWER resides in THE PEOPLE and that government MUST SERVE THE PEOPLE rather than itself. They never intended the government to become or operate like an oligarchy and specifically built safeguards to prevent that from happening. They truly believed that THE PEOPLE should have the liberty and freedom, as well as responsibility, to govern their own affairs without the goverment lording power over them.

Yet today, individualism and self-reliance are considered anti-social. The concepts of personal responsibility have been replaced with societal responsibility for every factor of our lives - remember, it takes a village. These very basic concepts upon which liberty and freedom succeed have been thrown aside in this mad dash toward socialism where supposedly no one is personally responsible and everyone can be washed clean if only we acquiesce.

The Supreme Court has become a defacto super-legislature with it's attendant political factions and pressures to assure a pleasing result to those to whom it is beholding for it's power. It has not only failed to protect us from the rest of the government lording their power over us, but has joined in just such an effort.

As long as the government can convince people that it will keep them warm and safe and well fed, people will be willing to give up their own liberty and freedom. To protect their source of well being they are also willing to help the government take the liberty and freedom from whomever disagrees with the new order. Yet, we are only one major disaster away from the collapse of the welfare state which has only been sustained through the massive debt accumulation over the past few decades. When the wealth creators in this country no longer are interested in being the money tree and that debt must be paid and a major crisis occurs, all those socialist welfare minded people are going to have a rude awakening to our true situation.

It might be possible to put a new coat of paint on the crumbling structure, but I have a hard time believing that this country can be rescued without the underlying foundation being rebuilt.

I hear too few voices and see too few efforts or programs dedicated to rebuilding that foundation.

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