[matheusmoreira]

The US government can just revoke the rights of its own citizens if it wants. That's literally what stuff like the Patriot act was designed to do. The US government gives itself the right to steal from its own citizens via "civil forfeiture". The US government spies on its citizens 24/7.

The whole point of the right to own and bear arms is to guarantee the ability of citizens to defend themselves from and even fight the government should it turn into some corrupt, tyrannical and ultimately unconstitutional police state. The ultimate check and balance is the threat of violence.

Without that ability, all this "rights" nonsense is just magical thinking. No one has any rights that they cannot personally defend. No one enjoys any rights in 2023, they enjoy the government's mercy.