That is so true.

What is not taught these days may be more important than what is. America's Founding Fathers discovered and understood many things which are not passed on through the system of "education".

Deriving rights can be an enlightening exercise. They form a chain, or network of sorts. At one end is the right to keep and bear arms. It can be derived from any other right. At the opposite end is freedom of religion. From freedom of religion, any other right can easily be derived.

Yet perhaps even that is "getting the cart before the horse". The first thing one must understand is the word 'right'. The only coherent definition of the word in the cosmos is found in the Declaration of Independence.

Counterfeit conceptions of "rights" are easily spotted, when one cares. They boil down to nothing. You'll be told "government grants you rights" or some nonsense. Nothing could be more absurd. Government can never be a source of rights. Government is the servant of the people - not the master. It has no authority of its own. To say "government gives us rights" is just a deceptive way of saying "we give ourselves rights". Either that, or (more often) it's a deceptive way of saying "government is your master".

The Founding Fathers knew better.

"Rights are antecedent to all earthly government; Rights…cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights are derived from the great Legislator of the universe." - John Adams

Read the Declaration of Independence for yourself sometime, and see how utterly contradictory that idea is. The whole purpose of any legitimate government is to protect rights. How then could it come to exist, if the counterfeit were passable?

The other counterfeits are worse. They say "rights are just an illusion/opinion".

A nonsense misdefinition of 'right' is an abomination, and its source is just hoping you don't realize... your rights are being outright denied! There is no two ways about it; either you have God-given, unalienable rights, or you don't. The doctrine of creation is essential to liberty; without it there can be none.

Now remember that freedom of religion right? Even it is derived.

“That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.” -Patrick Henry

It is from our duty that we obtain that right, and he who denies our rights is an enemy of God and America. He's not even trying to keep his enmity a secret, now is he?

The problem is that we don't want to face evil for what it is, and so we try to write it off "he's just kind of stupid". It isn't stupidity, but malice when some elitist denies the self-evident, God-given, unalienable rights of all mankind.