Gun Control & RKBA

The idea that a need leads to a right is not a principle that guided the Founders. Most basically the RKBA is accepted as an individual right by many leaders in this country including those Democrats identified elsewhere in this thread.

I point where this sub-thread started was questioning whether the right was or wasn't attached to militia membership. It's been pointed out that, in the letter of the law, militia membership has included men 17 to 45. In the hundred plus years were women have been able to vote, own property and fill any role in any service branch, I suggest that women are included now as well. As hack89 has pointed out there are no precedents for people having arms confiscated because they're aged out or due to being a woman.

In judicial operation in the US firearm ownership has been treated as an individual right.

Basic rights are not arrived at by convention or agreement of a majority. Neither can they be removed other than by due judicial process.