A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 20-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

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and they cannot be repealed or removed by government on a wholesale basis.

Sophistry.

Truth.


Your rights may be deemed to exist independent of any government or
document, but in real terms, you cannot enjoy those rights unless
you are permitted to by governments and/or the majority and/or
the tyrants that hold power. Individuals have nothing that can
control this. Only civilizations do.

This demonstrates the depth of your misunderstanding. The whole point of our
2nd Amendment and our very system of government is that the government does
not "permit" anything. We, the People, empower representatives and
bureaucrats to exercise strictly limited authority on a limited number of
subjects. All else is reserved to the people themselves. If these
bureaucrats transgress, we remove them from office. If they don't want to
go, we use force to remove them.

The entire purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to ensure that the People, as a
whole, ALWAYS have sufficient arms to achieve that end at necessity.

Thus, the People do have something to "control" tyranny, including the
tyranny of the majority, should peaceful means fail. That is precisely and
exactly what the Framers intended.

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Scott Weiser

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