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559throw 52 points ago +52 / -0

It doesn't enable anything. It disables the government from infringing upon it. You have the right to bear arms because you're a free man, not because the Constitution allows you that right.

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bh506407 26 points ago +26 / -0

Exactly. The bill of rights was made to limit the government’s power in order to have a free nation.

It’s not what the government allows us to do, it’s what WE the PEOPLE allow it to do.

This simple premise has been lost on so very many people. Some even WANT to become slaves of an authoritarian government. Which is about the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen or heard of.

Marxists are not Americans, they are traitors who despise free men and the greatest nation that was ever created.

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waxonwaxoff87 9 points ago +9 / -0

It is what makes our government so different. Our constitution and bill of rights don't say what I CAN do. They say what the government CAN'T do. Our rights are inherent natural rights. We fight to keep them not to get them.

I think that is why other countries don't understand the US and its culture of hating it's own government and gun love. They are subjects of their government. They received their rights from the government when monarchies gave power over to parliaments.

Also we are a young country closer to our founding and our standing military is only a recent thing that didn't exist in near its current capacity a hundred years ago.

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MAGANatsFan 3 points ago +3 / -0

Double upvote. Exactly on point Pede.

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Moose0528 5 points ago +6 / -1

It doesn’t even do that. The Constitution is just a piece of parchment. It is literally just a formal agreement that the Founders made with each other over the things they would overthrow the government over.

Try to take our guns? Revolution. Try to tell us when, where and how we can worship? Revolution. Try to limit our ability to speak out against the government? Revolution.

The Constitution is simply a contract, no more no less. If two parties agree to a contract, and one side violates it flagrantly, but the other party never attempts to enforce the contract then it might as well be toilet paper.

The problem is we have been trying to enforce the contract through the Democratic process, and we are just now realizing that our legal representatives have been conspiring with the other party the entire time.

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dakin116 1 point ago +1 / -0

Pretty sure the worship one occurred during muh covid

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RabidZoo 4 points ago +4 / -0

The problem is that if no one is willing to fight back tooth and nail against tyranny they have and will infringe on and strip us of ALL of our liberties leaving us more as slaves than we already are...freedom isn't free and we have nothing really organized enough to disrupt tyranny and take back our God-given rights. We haven't disabled the government from their infringement...yet. That needs to change.

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GODwins76 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah, well my AR disables the government from infringing upon it better.