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MO: With rights come responsibilities
Submitted by:
Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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"For all their collective wisdom, it might have been better if our Founding Fathers had written as much about 'responsibilities' as 'rights,' particularly when they added the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution."
"Perhaps they innately understood something we have lost sight of more than 200 years later: The two must co-exist. Rights uncoupled from responsibilities quickly collapse into chaos, then anarchy."
"But like a teeter-totter weighed down on one end with an anvil, the debate over guns has tilted overwhelming to one side: The question of 'rights.'" ... |
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teebonicus
(4/21/2015)
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"For all their collective wisdom, it might have been better if our Founding Fathers had written as much about 'responsibilities' as 'rights,' particularly when they added the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution."
Sheeeyeah. It's a given that you are smarter than our Founding Fathers, right?
Guaranteed rights are the central component of liberty. Mandated responsibility is the central component of tyranny.
What an idiot.
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