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All "rights" have scope, and the 2A especially protects only a small amount of what you do with your gun.
The only place a persons rights have scope is at the point where they infringe upon someone elses. The fact that I own firearms infringes upon nobody elses rights.
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So in 2000 BC all humans were having their "right" infringed upon because guns did not actually exist!!!
Non sequitur, they did however have the right to invent them. They also had the right to carry rocks, clubs, spears, etc. as long as they didn't use them to infringe on anothers rights.
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The reality is, it is a "right" that was founded by humans, the english BoR had something that was developed over the space of 100 years, and lead to a RBA in certain state constitutions, the 2A is the first instance of a RKBA, it is a constitutional "right" rather than a god given, human, fundamental, natural "right".
I realize you don't believe that people have inheirent rightsand you believe that rights are granted by the gov't, and that's sad, but let me make something clear, my rights as a person are not granted to me by the BOR nor are they granted to me by the SCOTUS. They also cannot be taken away by a missinterpretation of the 2A.
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Religion has been around a lot longer than firearms.
Catholicism has been around longer than Mormanism does that mean Catholics have a right to freedom of religion and Mormans don't. I don't think you thought that comment through very well.
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More, you are infringing upon this person's "rights", because quite frankly, there are probably 5 million americans who cannot keep or bear arms because the US govt says they cant.
Here we have to have a bit of seperation. If the Gov't has taken away someones RKBA because they are a rapist, murderer, mugger, etc. Tough cookies. They willingly violated the rights of others, there by forfeiting their own. On the other hand if the gov't is violating the RKBA of Joe Public, DC for example, then they are wrong and people shouldn't stand for it. Many don't.
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So what does this say about your govt then? There are gun bans in the US.
As I said, it is wrong. I can't speak for anyone else, but I pay little heed to laws that violate my rights. If guns were banned where I live it would make exactly zero difference in weather I have them or not. No different then if Catholicism were outlawed, I'm not going to change my religion by gov't edict any more then I'll give up my guns by gov't edict.
God Bless,
Lurch