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My comments were more about how the social fiction of the US Government defines itself in respect to the social fiction of Rights. It's about how the government, on paper, is allowed to function.
People say "If you want to ban guns, amend the constitution." This misses the fact that the government is not authorized to make laws infringing the Right of The People to bear arms any more than it is authorized to make laws forcing everyone to convert to Mormonism or to criminalize questioning the conduct of the Presidency.
Freedom of speech is just as sacred a Right as owning a gun or being able to believe in whatever deity you prefer. Anything that can be done to gut the 2nd Amendment can be practiced equivalently on any other Right.
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