While Libs Try to Demolish Our 2nd Amendment Rights… We Need to Remember the 4 Boxes of Liberty

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While Libs Try to Demolish Our 2nd Amendment Rights… We Need to Remember the 4 Boxes of Liberty

By Ben Marquis
March 6, 2018 at 12:51pm
 

It is indisputable that a number of our constitutionally-protected natural rights and basic liberties are under assault by the progressive left, chief among them the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, followed closely by the First Amendment right of free speech.

But as any American who cherishes their liberty well knows, that precious liberty must be closely guarded against those who would usurp it, hence the decision by the Founding Fathers to explicitly lay out the fundamental rights of the citizenry in the Constitution.

https://conservativetribune.com/second-amendment-remember-4-boxes-of-liberty/

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The problem with most "Conservative" blog and essay pieces these days - is that they FAIL to speak to the absolute truth for the continued regurgitation of liberalism, even when it is the kind of light variety taught to us in the 70's and 80's.

Important of all Mr. Marquis, it does a grave disservice to the very four 'boxes' your essay attempts to safeguard by stating that the Founders 'explicitly laid out the fundamental rights of the citizenry in the Constitution'.

This use of language is seen by most to mean the the Founders GRANTED our rights by laying them into the Constitution.

No.  They did not.

The Rights, which you accurately ascribed to Frederick Douglass - come from God, and Natures God.  They do not come from men, they did not come from the Founders, and they are not granted to us in the Constitution.  The Constitution may be amended and changed.

Our Rights cannot be amended or changed.  They are immutable and insoluble.

All the Founders 'laid out' in the Constitution - is the directives to the GOVERNMENT - to keep their mitts off these liberties, and what their role is in safeguarding them and why.

Our Rights are fundamental and inalienable.  They are not as our resident Leftist would argue without actually calling them this: government-granted privileges that are "necessarily reasonably regulated".

It is also inaccurate to use 'soap box' in addressing a crowd as an allegory for freedom of speech.  Freedom of speech, to express PRIVATE as well as public, ideas, criticism, scorn, levity and other expressions in observations of society, culture and especially government - is not limited to public speaking from a lectern.  It covers discussion in pubs, in elevators, on trains, in restaurants, on online forum boards, in newspaper Op-eds, in leaflets, in phone calls, in texting, in music, in Youtube videos, on Facebook, in advertising, in expression.  Our right to express beliefs, ideas and opinions - on ANY subject - are fundamental and absolute and are not limited to those speaking on a podium to a live audience.

Yes, we get the allegory that there are 4 'boxes' we citizens have as safeguards against tyranny.  The way you wrote your essay leaves too many threads easily pulled to be perverted by the very people you note are engaged in circumventing and abolishing those rights.