Lately I have become fired up about politics. It all started when I started to tell people that I wanted to buy a gun for protection. The nuts started falling out of the trees. Anti-gun people started to shame me for my basic right to personal protection even though it’s already a constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. The second amendment is the only amendment that also includes 3000 federal laws about how you may or may not exercise your 2nd Amendment.

Warning: This Penn & Teller clips have some strong language but present interesting and very valid points regarding our 1st and 2nd amendments.





I started thinking about other places that my guaranteed rights were being misconstrued or possibly even violated. I started thinking about how the role of government had become too encompassing, too convoluted and too intrusive. Every time a law is passed a freedom is removed. Think about it.

The Constitution of the United States didn’t include a guarantee of happiness only life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Happiness cannot be legislated into being and especially not for the huddled masses. However politicians continue to try and legislate everyone into Utopia. I have got bad news… The world is cruel. We cannot protect every single person in the world.

I believe in less government, less regulation, lower taxes and policies that allow for business to flourish in a competitive market. I used to be labeled a Republican Conservative but now it appears I may no longer be a Republican and certainly not a Democrat.

Labels: 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Constitution