Thread: Protesting Confiscation Events

Originally Posted by ebf

Sasquatch, if it was an inalienable right (ala Mruka) we would not be having this discussion...

If you can point me to such a "right" in the Arms Act or the Interpretation Act, I will eat my gnome hat

Firearms ownership is listed as a right in the English Bill of Rights Act 1689, which predates the Second Amendment by 100 years and still carries weight of law here.
The Bill of Rights Act was last invoked here(successfully, I might add) in the 1970s.

Also, the very concept of a human right precludes a government giving it to its people.
Human rights just exist. They always have and they always will. All governments can do is choose whether or not to recognise and respect them.
There is absolutely nothing any government can do to make a human right cease to exist.

Also, according to the US Supreme Court, the Second Amendment is subject to "reasonable restrictions." We have Antonin Scalia to thank for that.
There is no definition of what is and isn't a "reasonable restriction," so that is the excuse local, state, and federal government agencies use to fuck people over all the time.
There are millions of people who have to fight each and every day just to maintain what rights they have left, and even then bad laws and regulations still get passed