Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, Independence Day. A day of picnics, cookouts, family gatherings, and fireworks. Our country's birthday. A day to celebrate the actions of our Founding Fathers when they cast off the oppression of the British Crown and issued the proclamation:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

Unalienable Rights. And yet it seems that every day some politician or political interest group is trying to take those rights away.

As a Gun Rights Examiner, most of my articles deal with the Second Amendment, which ties directly into the goal of securing the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to be able to pursue happiness unmolested.

All of our rights, enumerated but not limited by the Bill of Rights, are part of who we are and part of what makes us free. All too often, it seems that people are willing to trade away those rights for a government handout or the false promise of additional safety or security.

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