Exercising our freedom of ... ?

A New Hampshire man attended one of the Obama rallies pumping his health care plan while open-carrying a pistol, which is perfectly legal in New Hampshire. Chris Matthews saw fit to try and frame the man as a dangerous extremist in his Hardball interview, which you can check out on Youtube.

The implication in this interview is that by carrying a gun, the man is making a threat to the President. Oh, how far have we fallen.

We all knew that many Democrats are not fans of the 2nd Amendment. In fact, I think a large number of people likely vote for Democrats because of this effective opposition to the clear application of the 2nd Amendment. But now we are finding that the President's party is opposed to the almighty First Amendment. We can't peaceably assemble and air our grievances, seek redress. We can't freely speak, especially if part of that speech is symbolic as much as open-carrying a firearm to a rally. We are intentionally trampling the 9th and 10th Amendments by the very nature of Obamacare to begin with. We are regularly subjected to excessive search and seizure of our property and persons (how is the gov't going to make choices about our healthcare without our tacit submission to searching of the finest details of our persons?). So much for the 4th Amendment. What is to be left of our rights? How long will it be until we are being asked to quarter soldiers?

Too bad my own state violates my 2nd Amendment right by making it illegal for me to make the same political statement as this man has made. The signal that we need to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights is the very fact that they are trying to take them away. Certainly we require the 2nd Amendment to enforce the first.