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"What is the Second Amendment?
It is recognition of a right.
Parse that sentence again: Rights can be either recognized or abrogated but they cannot be granted.
In order to grant something, you first must have it. The State does not possess the right to the people's self-defense (by definition) against either personal tyranny (e.g. a thug breaking into their home) or government tyranny (e.g. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.)
You either accept that you, and everyone else, have an unalienable right to self-defense or you do not."
How Unalienable Rights Become Privileges by Karl Denninger
It is recognition of a right.
Parse that sentence again: Rights can be either recognized or abrogated but they cannot be granted.
In order to grant something, you first must have it. The State does not possess the right to the people's self-defense (by definition) against either personal tyranny (e.g. a thug breaking into their home) or government tyranny (e.g. Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.)
You either accept that you, and everyone else, have an unalienable right to self-defense or you do not."
How Unalienable Rights Become Privileges by Karl Denninger