content: It's important to understand that our rights are inherent to being human.  The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution is the part of the Supreme Law of the Land in the US the restricts any government that might ever be from violating the right that already exists.  It's an insistence that government be legitimate, for the purpose of respecting and defending the rights of the individual. Australians, and Hong Kongans (?  Hong Kongites? Hong Kongers), have rights inherent to being human, but live under illegitimate, criminal, regimes. It is important to understand that the Constitution doesn't grant rights, and nor does it restrict free people.  It acknowledges rights, and is a set of restrictions on government.