Is Gun Ownership a Right?

[Swampfox]

Why? Primarily because:

a. The courts (conservative and liberal) have upheld the laws.
b. The people did not force the government to rescind the laws

That's what the militia was supposed to do. What passes for the militia these days is the National Guard, which (except for nukes) does have the same types of weapons as the Federal government.

The problem with this is the National Guard is controlled by government, not the people.

The Founding Fathers believed many things.

Most of them believed they had the right to enslave black people (who apparently were not endowed with any "God given" rights).

Nearly all of them believed that white women should not have the same rights as white men.

Thomas Jefferson believed that we should not go even 20 years without having a bloody, armed rebellion against the government.

I don't much care what the Founding Fathers believed. More important is what people today believe. And even more important is what they do.

I agree our Founding Fathers made mistakes, but when they made the Constitution and the Bill of Rights they put in avenues for wrongs to be corrected. Now as far as blacks being property some did others didn’t. If you research it many wanted to outlaw slavery, but many opposed it. The anti slavery FFs gave in to the ones that wanted slavery just to save the fledgling country.