Posted June 15, 2018 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Shortly after the Constitution was ratified, our Founding Fathers set to work on something else. They figured that as good as the Constitution was, it still left a few things up for grabs. They wanted to preserve a few key rights, civil liberties that they believed were essential for our nation’s future.

Among those were the right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press, just to name a few.

Called “The Bill of Rights,” these first ten amendments solidified our liberties, freedoms not granted by the government but by our very nature has free people but specifically protected.

Another of those liberties was the right to keep and bear arms.

Yet we’re constantly bombarded by people who think we’re somehow out of line to refuse to give up our sacred liberties. People like this opinion writer:

I led my first mass shooting drill in January 2013, a month after the horrific Sandy Hook massacre. My colleagues and I spent hours developing plans. Was it better to escape or to shelter in place or to fight back with the blocks and tennis balls a police captain had advised we have on hand? Which students might freeze? Which might run? …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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