GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[HairOfTheDog]

(The Patriot Act was essentially repealed last month.)

No, parts of the Patriot act expired last month. However, the next day, The USA Freedom Act restored many of the expired parts.

The major change was that the NSA can no longer continue it's massive phone data collection program.

That's true.

I assumed the parts you figured the founding fathers would object to was related to the monitoring of citizen's private data without probable cause.

If you meant the whole of the Act, I stand corrected.