Markemp wrote:You do realize that the constitution can be amended, right? We are allowed to have guns as long as the second amendment isn’t overturned. We should work to prevent that from happening of course, but your “right” is given to you by the people not taking it away.
It’s literally called the second amendment.
By the Natural Rights theory rights are pre-existing; they can be violated but not nullified. What the Bill of Rights does is, to borrow a phrase from the Declaration of Independence, "secure" those rights: make them manifest within a system of law and declare their abrogation unconstitutional and illegitimate.
Do you suppose that before the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that African-Americans had no rights; or as declared in the infamous Dred Scott ruling "no rights which the white man was bound to respect"? Most people today would say that their human rights had pre-existed all along and that it was wrong and evil that those rights were unrecognized and violated.
Sounds to me as if like so many you're experiencing cognitive dissonance over "The Embarrassing Second Amendment"- the red-headed stepchild of the Bill of Rights.