Rights don’t come from the Constitution
March 9, 2008 – 3:13 am by JohnFacebook’s US politics question for today was: “Does the Second Amendment give individual citizens the right to own guns?”
Um, the Constitution doesn’t GIVE anybody any rights to anything, you fucking retards. And even if that were the stated purpose of a Constitution, the fact that it claims to give someone a right bears no relevance to whether anyone has that right or not. The owning of a gun does not violate anyone’s rights because it does not constitute the use or threat of coercion against anyone else; the right to own a gun comes from the nature of the universe, not some irrelevant and powerless parchment.
UPDATE: I notice in the response section to the question, the wording of possible responses is, either, Yes, it allows citizens to own guns, or, No, it does not allow them to. “Allow” is a much better, or at least more accurate, word, but the fact remains that a right doesn’t exist because a state allows its citizens to exercise it. Obviously, we are allowed to exercise our various rights with various levels of impunity, depending on the severity of the criminality of our states, but this still bears no relevance to the existence of those rights in reality.
One Response to “Rights don’t come from the Constitution”
Thank you! I am planning to write about this too, but it’s nice to see someone else picking that up.
By Francois Tremblay on Mar 9, 2008