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The 2A does not protect everything to do with a gun.
I never said it did. It does protect my individual right to keep and bear arms. You will notice here that I said "protects" as opposed to "grants". The BOR does not grant rights it only helps to protect us from Gov't infringment on rights we are born with.
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YOu have to remember this, "rights" only came about because of governments existing.
Wrong, rights are not something given to us by gov't. Rights are something everyone has regardless of the gov't they live or don't live under. For instance, every person in Iran has the right to freedom of religion. They also have a gov't that violates that right, something they should work to change. Every person living in the UK has the right to keep and bear arms. They also have a gov't that violates that right, something they should work to change.
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Human beings are animals, so if you say that in 2000 BC humans had the "right" to invent guns, then so did lions, tigers and all other animals. And they still do.
Give me a break. No wonder you can't grasp the concept of human rights, you can't even see the difference between people and animals.
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Oh, and most people who carried clubs and spears used these to "infringe on anothers rights" it was warfare, survival of the fittest.
I wasn't there but I would guess that those spears were also used for hunting, fishing, and "gasp" self defense.
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Can you imagine in 2000 BC, you have a club and are about to kill some guy and he turns around and says "you have no right to do that", you would just beat him and laugh at the same time.
First of all, I wouldn't be infringing upon him like that. But if some one was going to club me I would sure be glad I have the right to my own club to defend myself with.
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Secondly, the 2A is important here, because the BoR prevents the govt from doing things, it prevents the govt making laws that stop individuals who have not broken the law or are a risk to society from keeping arms, ie no action but possessing arms, and fighting in the militia. The founding fathers were clear on this.
Once again, the BOR has no bearing on what rights I have as a person. BTW your theory that the 2A allows people to keep but not bear arms is laughable and unworthy of discussion.
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YOu can have the "right" to grow carrots for all i care, i can still go around your house and destroy your carrots, so what? Are your "rights" going to do anything at all???
In a way yes. Before you go stomping my carrots you may want to remember I have the right to keep that club we talked about earlier. A bad example, but it shows how the RKBA can be used to protect the others.
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Remember this, mormons cannot do all their religious stuff, why not? They cannot be married to two women! There is a reason for this, had the mormon religion been the main christian offshoot, then it would have been accepted as normal, but because it is not so old, they decided that this is not religious enough to be protected, so they banned it.
Actually your helping my point here. This is an example of gov't infringing on rights. If all parties are consentual, gov't should stay out of it. If my chosen religion permitted polygomy (sp?) then I would practice it, it would be my right, just as it would be the right of others not to practice it.
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And if this were religion, or any of the other "rights" in the BoR, it is not "tough cookies" is it. Criminals have a limited "right" to religion in prison, ie no going to mecca, but still allowed to pray in prison.
Exactly my point, people who violate the rights of others forfeit their own. Sometimes to a limited degree, sometimes completely. When they commited their crime against others they gave their rights over to the will of others.
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You just said it is tough cookies if a criminal has their "right" infringed upon. The law that says a criminal cannot have a gun after leaving prison is a GUN BAN!!!! YOu seem to be in favour of this gun ban.
The difference is the criminal knowingly commits an act that will forfeit his rights to some degree. A DC style ban takes rights from innocent people who have not chosen to surrender them.
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Or laws which you think violate your "rights". Seeing as carry and conceal is not protected by the 2A, yet most people assume that the 2A protects their "right" to carry, it does not wash. The bearing arms clause protects an individual to be in the militia, nothing more.
Again the 2A does not grant me rights, it only helps protect them. I have the RKBA regardless of how you or anyone else may missinterpret the 2A.
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It might rain though!!
Typo, you know what I meant.
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Would you get a carry and conceal license, even though it is unconstitutional for the government to license or tax a "right"????
Not relevent where I live, concealed carry is legal without one. Alaska is truly a wonderful state.

God Bless,
Lurch

PS: I'm curious to know what you think of me endorsing your rights even though you don't seem to think you have any without gov't permission.