James Taylor on Guns "Americans Need To Make Some Sacrifice[s] To Our Freedoms"

James Taylor is a wonderful singer/songwriter and musician. But he doesn't know much about Freedom and where it comes from.

The Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy reports:

“Addressing the issue of gun control, singer-songwriter James Taylor told The Daily Caller that Americans ‘need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms’ in order to keep children safe. Following his performance at President Obama’s second inauguration, TheDC asked Taylor if he agreed with Obama’s executive actions on gun control. ‘I think the nation is very divided on gun control,’ Taylor told TheDC, ‘but I think the majority of us feel strongly — even the majority of gun owners feel strongly — that we need to make some sacrifice[s] to our freedoms, if that’s the way to put it. We need to make some sacrifices to what we might want to have, in order to safeguard our children.’”

OK JT, I will bite...which freedoms should we sacrifice?  OOH I know--why doesn't the government start to control which songs you are allowed to play? Here's another idea, how about we not only sacrifice our first and second Amendment freedoms' but other freedoms also?  Honestly who needs that habeas corpus stuff in the constitution it's not even English.  Right James?  This is America we should only recognize the rights that are written in English..none of that Latin stuff.

There is only one problem with sacrificing our "freedoms" James---we can't. Or at least YOU can't and neither can our government. You see,  freedom isn't the only thing that makes America special..it's where those freedoms come from--not the government, but from God.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

In other words YOU can volunteer to give YOUR freedoms away, but neither you nor a government can take away mine without my consent. And since I'm not about to giving anything away keep your bloody hands off my freedoms and go play some music. Obviously talking will get you in trouble.