So it's a God given right to own firearms in America
to be treated, free of charge for a random gunshot wound is not?
I'm not going to comment further on the subject
Amend the Amendment!
what if there's no god?
actually, it's our "inalienable" right... whatever that means....but it's our right...
Not to be TOO picky, but I think you have a couple of documents mixed up with this. The word "inalienable" or "unalienable" does not appear in the Constitution. It's in the Declaration of Independence, which is not a legal document of the United States.
Nevertheless, you're correct that in the Constitution it says that we have a right to "keep and bear arms," although that isn't quite the same as "owning" them. But we can get lost yet again, debating the very extensive challenges of the Constitution, and will get nowhere yet again.
the only thing that bothers me with this and other attacks of the constitution is how hard the government tries to change/delete it...
seems like they hate that piece of paper our country was founded on...
Well, some of that is, I'm sure, a matter of point of view. For pretty much everyone, when the Constitution seems to you to say something you like, and someone else, in or out of the government says they oppose it, it's common to think they are the one being anti-constitutional.
But the Constitution was written by people who were trying to be pretty general a lot of the time, precisely to avoid fighting too much, and in lots of places, they said things in ways which even as they wrote them, was ambiguous. Often on purpose, in order to get the thing approved.
In the end,they included ways to change it, precisely because they realize it would need to BE changed from time to time. Pretty smart guys, all in all, but hardly gods on earth.
And of course, you can look at someone with ambitions to lead the country in new (or old) directions, in more than one way. When they are cleverly finding ways to read the Constitution so that something you like is okay (even though you and they know that you're stretching things), that might come across to you as showing brave and creative leadership; while when they do the exact same thing in ways you disagree with, you might want to demand that they be hung as traitors.
The only reason why we have a nationwide system of interstate highways, among other thing that lots of people who think they are strict constructionists like, is because of people reading things into the Constitution that were never explicitly there.
