Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on banning guns? [View all]jody
(26,624 posts)like the First and Fourth Amendments, codified a pre-existing right. . . . {t}his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.
Before the Constitution and as sovereign states, PA (1776) and VT (1777) said "That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable/unalienable rights, amongst which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." and "That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power."
Government does not have the authority to ban arms although gun-grabbers would like to do that.