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I was disappointed tonight on my drive home from work, to hear a Florida self-described gun shop owner and "gun rights advocate" proclaim that only citizens of the USA have "Second Amendment rights" - in relation to the Florida shooting by a Saudi national.
NPR was going on about hunting licenses in Florida, foreign visitors, etc., being able to buy guns. They had at least one, possibly two different people make statements about gun rights. I was driving and of course can't play it back, but I did hear the one lady plain as day make the statement that only US citizens have "Second Amendment rights".
Sorry, but while it may be that the US is one of few (or maybe only) nation that recognizes that right, it is one of a number of inalienable 'natural rights' (or as some people put it, ' god given rights'). Be definition, natural rights are rights that everyone has, not just citizens.
It just amazes me that so many people do not understand these fundamental facts regarding our rights.
NPR was going on about hunting licenses in Florida, foreign visitors, etc., being able to buy guns. They had at least one, possibly two different people make statements about gun rights. I was driving and of course can't play it back, but I did hear the one lady plain as day make the statement that only US citizens have "Second Amendment rights".
Sorry, but while it may be that the US is one of few (or maybe only) nation that recognizes that right, it is one of a number of inalienable 'natural rights' (or as some people put it, ' god given rights'). Be definition, natural rights are rights that everyone has, not just citizens.
It just amazes me that so many people do not understand these fundamental facts regarding our rights.