Blame the founders

[Fresh_Start]

Apparently they didn't think they needed to say that people have a right to live.....and their omission of the right to live means that courts don't consider the right to live as a constitutionally guaranteed right.

Although I would argue that you usually have to be alive to have free speech or right to bear arms...or most of the other bill of rights.

[Motley13]

1. I'm for letting the people have a musket

[Moostache]

2. Life, liberty and the pursuit. ...

Thought it was hard to get much more explicit than that....

[Fresh_Start]

3. that was the declaration of independence not the constitution nt

nt

[Moostache]

5. Yes, I know that, but still the founding ideas...

The raison d'etre of the United States, no?

Technically, the 2nd amendment is in the bill of rights and not the constitution either...lol!

[unblock]

7. amendments are in the constitution. they weren't in the *original* constitution,

but they are in the current constitution. they become a part of the constitution when they are ratified. that's what an amendment is.

[unblock]

6. true, but life, liberty, and property is in the 5th amendment.

[Iggo]

4. I blame the gunfuckers.

All of them.