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In reply to the discussion: If you love your guns more than your children, something is wrong [View all]Fearless
(18,458 posts)Just a bill of rights. The purpose for its creation was to assuage the worries of Anti-Federalists at the time that the Constitution would create a new "King George" as president. It is a list of rights promised that cannot be taken away by government without due cause.
The term "human rights" means those essential qualities that people need to LIVE and to maintain their "humanity". Here is the current list of human rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
You may cite the right to "liberty and security of person" to promote guns as a human right. However this is not what security of person means.
"In general, the right to the security of one's person is associated with liberty and includes the right, if one is imprisoned unlawfully, to the remedy of habeas corpus.[1] Security of person can also be seen as an expansion of rights based on prohibitions of torture and cruel and unusual punishment. Rights to security of person can guard against less lethal conduct, and can be used in regard to prisoners' rights.[2]"
Rhona K.M. Smith, Textbook on International Human Rights, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 245.