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Every few months I receive a forwarded email with a pre-amble, often customized or re-written by someone, but linking one to the USA Today Poll FROM NOVEMBER 2007:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/quickquestion/2007/november/popup5895.htm

The big question being: "Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?"

Options are: Yes, No, Undecided.

The forwarded email, of course, beseeches us to answer "YES, Let's show 'em!"

And, of course, sadly the results are 97% YES!
And there are over 6 MILLION respondents (since 2007).

And, unfortunately it is a trick question... my reasoning is below... if you are so inclined please feel free to share with all who will listen...it is at the crux of how Americans view their relationship with our government, servant or master.

If i knew the editor at USToday or thought they would listen, i would have them change the poll... yeah right!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/quickquestion/2007/november/popup5895.htm

None of the Amendments "give" us our rights... that denotes a privilege that can be taken away was well.
Our rights are unalienable... naturally occurring to us... if given at all, then given to us by our creator.

The Amendments were put there to ensure that government does not "infringe" on our rights that were ours to begin with before government was formed.

The first 10 Amendments were all about what government "shall not" do. There's nothing about what government "shall allow".

So unfortunately the intention of the poll might be good (might be)... but it really is only going to create more uneducated Americans about their God-given rights.