Thougts on your rights.

I was just thinking today about our rights. The Constitution sets down in writing and guarantees our rights. Cool. The thing about it is that, like the guarantee that comes with a pair of socks or a new widget, the guarantee is only worth something if you pursue it. The widget breaks and you have to go about the business of having the widget maker cough up the new widget. It's not always automatic, sometimes you have to fight for your replacement widget and make the company honor their guarantee. If enough people take the effort to make them honor the guarantee often enough, then the process is going to be pretty painless. If we don't try to make them do the right thing, then the guarantee is "just something that is printed on the box". We have to do the work.

I also believe (as probably do most people who are into self-reliance) that our rights exist independent of the Constitution. They are inherent in our being and imbued in us by God, or nature, or our humanity. They can not be legislated away. I think those of us with kids should take some time to make sure our children know that.