A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 18-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

No, Americans are free because they have the right to keep and bear arms,
not because of the Constitution.

They only have that right because of the constitution. Take that
away and their "right" goes with it. Rights are accorded by those
in power, whether by might or by vote.

I've told you several times that you are incorrect. You are now willfully
refusing to recognize reality.

Once mo "Rights" are not granted by the Constitution. Rights exist as an
inherent part of one's humanity, even without the existence of government,
and they cannot be repealed or removed by government on a wholesale basis.

All the Constitution does is CONSTRAIN government power and authority.
Nothing more. The 2nd Amendment forbids government to infringe on our right
to keep and bear arms. That is all.

If the 2nd Amendment is repealed, the right to keep and bear arms does not
cease to exist. The only thing that changes is to what degree the government
might be authorized to infringe on that right. And the point of an armed
citizenry is to ensure that even with the repeal of the 2nd Amendment,
government would be unable to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms,
because the citizenry would view such an infringement as a usurpation of
power and a tyrannical act, and would use the arms they have, in exercise of
the right, to put down the rogue government that presumes to usurp power and
infringe on our rights, thus restoring the 2nd Amendment and putting
government back in its place.

The right to keep and bear arms that each and every citizen on the face of
the planet has CANNOT be removed by anyone, except as a result of some
malfeasance on the part of a particular individual that makes him/her
untrustworthy and a danger to society. No blanket infringement of the RKBA
is permitted, and the use of force is authorized to prevent such
infringements.

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Regards,
Scott Weiser

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