> Nobody argues owning a gun is an essential human right. I do — it's a constitutional right because it is a fundamental ('essential') human right. A free cit

> Nobody argues owning a gun is an essential human right. I do — it's a constitutional right because it is a fundamental ('essential') human right. A free citizen (i.e., not a child or prisoner) has a right to wield violence in defense of himself, others and property; to restrict that right (as opposed to restricting unjust exercises of violence) is IMHO fundamentally unjust.