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The question cultivates and nurtures a profoundly incorrect belief about the Constitution and the origin of rights.
I do not possess the right to keep and bear arms because the 2nd Amendment "gives" it to me . . . I possess the right because no power was ever granted to the federal government to have the slightest interest in the personal arms of the private citizen.
The acceptance of the anti-constitutional concept that our rights are given to us by government decree is the ultimate insult to the framers and their novel exercise of establishing a charter of conferred powers that recognizes and secures retained rights.
This poll's results are sad testimony of just how far we have wandered from the principles the framers held dear.
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