Gun Control & RKBA

Are only rights in a society if that society grants those rights. That might seem a bit like I'm saying you aren't born with rights, but I'm talking realpolitik not abstract.

If you're in Syria you don't have the right to many things. Telling your executioner about your natural rights won't stop a bullet. Nor will it convince them to not shoot the next guy. Alternatively a member of ISIS in France might lose the right to religious freedom as far as clothing is concerned. He can claim that right is connected to his very being and not something a court can take away, but the court won't care one bit.

As for free speech, courts take it away all the time. There's things you cant say and clothes you are required to wear. Your concept of free is informed at best by propaganda. There's not absolute freedom of almost anything in America. Or anywhere.

Good and evil are largely abstract. They're defined by society as a whole and codified by legislation and courts. That's society.