At the Concord, NH Holiday Inn Wednesday morning at about 10:45, I was leaning through a doorway into the absolutely jam-packed Newt Gingrich event struggling to hear.
Newt was in full blown professorial form elucidating our liberties from our founding texts.
At one point, after noting Jefferson's soaring ode to liberty "that [all Men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," Newt said God gave us the right to bear arms.
Really? Was this in the time of Adam, or of Moses, or the Prophets?
Was this left out of the New Testament?
Perhaps, God only gave us the right after the first firearms were invented -- anticipating the American revolution.
Did God give the right to bear arms to all other persons in all other countries?
Do the God-given rights mentioned in our Bill of Rights apply to all persons in other countries too?
Or did God only give these rights to the American people?
How did the Members of Congress and the Senators at the First U.S. Congress get the message?
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