Owning guns- Right or Privilege?

[u/Low_Bar_804]

So obviously here in Canada our government sees private firearm ownership as a privilege rather than a right. My question is, how you guys feel? Do you think gun ownership is a right or a privilege?

When you look at other things people view as rights, such as abortion, freedom of expression and freedom of religion etc. These are all viewed by most as inherently “good rights”, but in many countries these rights are restricted. I think, along with many others, that it is justified to ignore unjust laws that restrict human rights.

I personally believe that firearm ownership is a fundamental human right because it protects all of our other rights and freedoms from being taken away. So even though legally speaking firearm ownership is a privilege that can be taken away at any time here in Canada, I don’t agree with the way our country and many others treat firearm ownership.

[u/SakanaToDoubutsu → u/[deleted]]

Just because its old doesn't mean its invalid, yet these old documents seem to be tossed by the wayside and ignored.

Chronocentrism is the cognitive bias or belief that one's own time period is the most important, central, or superior in history, often seeing the past as primitive and the future as dramatically different, like a historical turning point, a concept similar to ethnocentrism but focused on time rather than ethnicity. It leads people to judge history through present needs, overlook past achievements, and fall for "this time it's different" fallacies, hindering long-term thinking, especially in areas like policy and sustainability. 

I always find it funny to me how people will say "history always repeats itself then at the same time go "the people of the past were wrong and we know better now".