Those gun rights came from people who believed we were created and rights were inherent in our make up (inalienable) and government can only limit rights. Governments don't give rights. Our rights, like the 2nd are based on that thinking whether you approve or not is immaterial.
Imaginary sky fairies don't have any power to give or take human being's rights.
Then, seriously, how can you claim these rights?
Besides our own founding documents (which tells us they are endowed by our Creator), what other source do you have that says you have any rights?
It's been answered. I'll repeat it for the late bloomers, the founders considered rights inalienable, being created by a higher power than man, wrote down those rights in the binding law of the land to protect them. What more should there be or could there be?
I was simply asking Huggy, if he doesn't believe in a Creator how can he believe he has rights. And what source tells him that
What a stupid question. I don't need a source. All I need is a good personal moral compass, a fair understanding of what it takes to get along with others or not(they also have rights which I must consider when asserting my own) and a will to defend those rights I choose to claim.
So far this country and at least the community I live in hasn't done anything I believe to be unnecessary to remain functional. I can think of a few personal freedoms I would enjoy having that I don't have but I don't believe the general public is mature enough to resist abusing them. Rights have to be adjusted in relation to the situation to some degree. I don't see that concept to be a weakness in my defense of the rights I claim. I don't live in a vacuum. This isn't the 18 century.
I don't have any hair brained expectations of an afterlife so I believe every intelligent human being constantly works vigilantly towards getting the most out of this opportunity of life.
I'm sure that if I was placed in some other environment where individual rights are trampled my life expectancy would be a lot less than the one I can shoot for here.
All in all I feel the balance we have achieved here in the US for it's citizens with only a few comparative exceptions such as single payer health care including dental, which is provided by almost every modern society with the US the only holdout, is about as good as can be expected.
I believe that current gun(weapons) controls are paranoid. I would like to see a more reasonable approach to the absolute right for any citizen to be allowed to arm themselves as they see fit. It is certainly worse in other parts of the country and much worse in other parts of the world.