WooHoo! Glad you're back.

You mention that Masons gave Americans rights, and I wanted to point out they didn't, but recognized that people have these rights, and limited the government so that it wasn't powerful enough to deprive them of their inherent rights. Across the many millennia people have been around, back into the deepest prehistory, free men have been armed. That has been the visual representation of their freedom, that they possessed their natural rights. Not until slavery was imposed by violently subjugating free men with armies were men deprived of their right to bear arms.

Thanks!