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To try to keep nominally on the point I was trying to make, though, it's pretty clear that the "right" to gun ownership is not a fundamental or natural or universal human right. Some rights are simply decisions made by one society to resolve a particular issue in one way or another - such as our right to be free from quartered troops. At most (and it is disputed) we have chosen to adopt for ourselves a guarantee of the ability to own firearms. But contrary to Dope1's assertion, that is neither a fundamental or natural right.

Well, we can agree to disagree here.
We have multiple rights that are extremely fundamental. Freedom of speech is one; freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures of property would be another.

Another is one of self-defense. The best means of that is firearm ownership, hence the 2A.

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