The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163955   Message #3922180
Posted By: beardedbruce
04-May-18 - 03:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Guns in America
Subject: RE: BS: Guns in America
Laugh- at you.

"The founders considered rights to be "God-given" or "natural." I believe that we err when we speak of "Constitutional Rights." We should be referring to them as "Constitutionally protected rights." The Constitution does not confer these rights, it only protects them. Some, those mentioned in the Bill of Rights, are expressly protected. Others are protected by the fact that the government is not expressly empowered to violate them."