Um...yes it is. It is right there in the 2nd amendment. If you don't believe me, read District of Columbia v. Heller.
It. Is. A. Civil. Right.
I don't think anti-freedom hate should be able to be written here. Do you like the 1st amendment? Are the rights guaranteed there civil rights?
Ignorance. Pure ignorance. Simplistic emotional thought that does not belong here. Your theoretical nonsense has no basis in law. Morally? It depends. It depends. I can discuss it further if you reply. But, the social contract of how we can live together seems far different from what you theorize. If you actually have some plan of the usually claimed "common sense" restrictions, state them. Unless they are different from what has already been repeatedly proposed, I will refute. (I will probably refute even if "new". The only thing theoretically effective is total confiscation. Total denial of civil rights. Civil war? Sure. But, "Think of the children!)
No. It is the right to be free and protect yourself. It is the right to deal with the issue of if seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Even that is if the police decide they want to protect you. The case law is clear of the penalty if they decide, for whatever reason, they don't want to protect you. (Maybe not "any" reason. Like all discrimination, if the decision is made for a prohibited reason, there could be a problem.) It is the right to deal with a potentate that demands all with no reason. (aka, "To disarm the people...s the most effectual way to enslave them".) I could go on. A "gun" is not simply a thing. It represents things. Many, many things. Things that do not deserve many "." to promulgate one's personal theories.
Yes, I agree. One change might be to allow the militia of the able bodied of the law-abiding populace to be trained and able to carry as it seems the founding fathers believed. That is not the "changes" you want. But, how many would have died at the pulse if all were armed and trained? Let us play a theory experiment. Which would have had less people killed and wounded by the radical Islamic terrorist. All those at The Pulse were armed and trained, or there were common sense gun control measures in effect?
Of course not. That would be wrong. Because, perhaps then, we can actually have a conversation on how to deal with the issue.
Agreed. Let us try the solution the founding fathers envisioned.