Why is it that I need permission to exercise my Second Amendment protected right, but not any 1st Amendment Rights?

Because your vocalized opinions don't generally leave a classroom full of dead children to clean up?

SSG (Join to see) you are scaring the liberals.

SSG (Join to see) I couldn't disagree more on every point. Let me address them chronologically. First, our Founders were born here. Their forebears left Europe, primarily England, often because Second Sons were ineligible to inherit estates, and America was full of free land available almost just for the asking. (The Puritans before them left England and Holland because they wanted to practice an oppressive form of religion that was discouraged in Europe.) Finally, most liberals are not trying to take anybody's guns. Many are gun owners like myself. There is a huge and extraordinarily well funded Right Wing Propaganda Machine that wants you to believe that liberal politicians are akin to communists trying to destroy America. The truth is that liberals like myself are highly focused on enforcing Constitutional rights for everyone. As to the 2A, it's really only in recent decades that it was interpreted to give all individuals the absolute right to carry any weapon, anytime, everywhere. That single 28-word sentence with 3 strangely placed commas is, in fact, a very complex issue that reasonable people can disagree on.