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There's one thing that seems to be missing: gun rights do not exist because of the Bill of Rights, gun rights were simply emphasized ("guaranteed" is a better word) as being very important. This particular angle of a "guarantee" is something that is almost entirely lost on the public at large, not just on the right to self defense (including gun rights, of course) but laws in general. Most of us assume that if a law is not written that "allows" or "permits" an act or course of action, that it must be illegal. The whole system has been bastardized and turned on it's head. Not sure how we got here, but we better start pushing back before it's too late. New laws mostly serve to restrict acts that often times harm no fellow citizen or possession thereof.

I wish I could recall the wisdom of some writer in the past that refers to the founding fathers, or someone of their time that said (grossly para-phrasing): "when the laws of a state/nation, are so complex that the citizens do not understand them, or run afoul of them with no ill intent (i.e. no victim, merely a technical infraction), then they have a duty to cast off those that wrote the laws, or otherwise ignore them, or in an extreme case, replace the entire system of government." Kind of harkens back to the Federalist Papers and the segway to the Declaration of Independence, doesn't it???