We have a "right" to own guns, but not a right to health care, food, shelter, clothing, employment

[Yo_Mama]

94. Totally messed up analogy

You don't have any more of right to own guns than you do to health care, food, shelter, clothing and employment. Less, in fact.

Absolutely no one is going to buy a gun for you if you claim poverty, but we do have programs to fund health care, food, and shelter for the poor. We also have a lot of charities that even try to raise funds for clothing, as well as some basic welfare programs that do provide some living money that can be used to buy necessities such as clothing (although darned little).

Unless you are a felon or fall into a few other categories, you have the right to buy most types of guns. You also have the right to buy food, rent a place, buy clothing, and find a job if you can get one.

We have laws on the books preventing people from discriminating against a lot of people for renting and employment, because of past sad history. So one could argue that you have more of a legal right to shelter and employment than you do to own a gun. You really do have more of a right to all of the things you say we don't have a right to than you do to own a gun. A felon cannot be prohibited from buying food or clothing, for example.

Most of the "rights" in our Constitution are either due-process based or negative rights - i.e. the government can't prevent you from this or that, but that doesn't mean the government is obligated to fund the thing or activity to which you have a right.