USCIS doesn’t include the 2nd Amendment as an American Right

I have a friend who’s becoming a U.S. Citizen and he sent me this information from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

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Below you will find several rights and responsibilities that all citizens should exercise and respect. Some of these responsibilities are legally required of every citizen, but all are important to ensuring that America remains a free and prosperous nation.

Rights

Responsibilities

  • Freedom to express yourself.
  • Freedom to worship as you wish.
  • Right to a prompt, fair trial by jury.
  • Right to vote in elections for public officials.
  • Right to apply for federal employment requiring U.S. citizenship.
  • Right to run for elected office.
  • Freedom to pursue “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
  • Support and defend the Constitution.
  • Stay informed of the issues affecting your community.
  • Participate in the democratic process.
  • Respect and obey federal, state, and local laws.
  • Respect the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others.
  • Participate in your local community.
  • Pay income and other taxes honestly, and on time, to federal, state, and local authorities.
  • Serve on a jury when called upon.
  • Defend the country if the need should arise.

Source: http://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/citizenship-rights-and-responsibilities

Notice something missing? No right to keep and bear arms. Think of all the future citizens reading that website, unless some of them are already pro-gun, they will never know of the 2nd Amendment.

By the way, who said we have to respect the rights, beliefs, and opinions of others? That goes against “support and defend the Constitution”.

Some of these “responsibilities” are simply ridiculous. “Stay informed of the issues affecting your community,” sure, I do that, but I do that because I want to, not because I have to. If I wanted to watch Comedy Central all day long I would be free to do that instead.

“Participate in your local community”? Who came up with that one? The Community Organizer in Chief? I’ll participate with my local community if we’re doing something I like, that’s what free people do.

 

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