On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 6:59:32 AM UTC-4, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 8/27/2020 4:22 PM, wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 3:30:41 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> America is ruled by fear.
> >>
> > Nah. When Jimmy wrote the Declaration of Independence the 2nd Amendment
> > was one of ten articles of the Bill of Rights. Giving the right to bear
> > arms and defend the home. They'd had enough of tyranny from a government.
> >
> The Bill of Rights did not "give" any rights. It recognized man's God
> given rights, and precluded the government from taking them away.

For certain values of "God", given how many of the Founding Fathers were
deists.

Cindy Hamilton