92% of Americans think that their rights are under siege?
I'm surprised, but pleased, that so many recognize that fact.
Our rights are under siege. Go, for example, to any Liz Warren rally, where she will explain why one set of her "plans" requires her to take away a good part of your liberty and property, while other parts of the plan will give you free stuff to make up for it. A Liz Warren world would be unquestionably less free and more controlled but with new free stuff. And Bernie makes no bones about it. He wants a revolution. A peaceful one, to be sure, but one in which smart people like himself get to decide what deodorants will be sold; how much money you are allowed to make, and how much property you are allowed to buy and keep.
Indeed, most of DC would be happier if we had fewer rights and more obligations (to those smart and supremely competent people in DC naturally).
And the right that annoys them the most, is the right to keep and bear arms, because how can they be expected to sleep peacefully at night without knowing exactly who has guns and for what reasons? How can they control the situation when there are so many people in flyover country who not only own guns, but insist that they have a right to do so?
We ought to get used to it. Our rights are always going to be under siege as long as our government is controlled by those who have a lust for power and almost no sense of humility about their own suitability to tell the rest of us what we have to do.