How do natural rights inform debates about gun control

Citation. Jud Campbell, Natural Rights, Positive Rights, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 83 Law and Contemporary Problems 31-52 (2020) Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal and inalienable (they ... Apr 21, 2020 ... this article proposes that unrecognised natural rights are 'inoperative' but—contrary to Martin's theory—still existent natural rights ... Government gets its right to govern from the consent of the people. Its powers are delegated to it by the governed. Oct 28, 2020 ... The first right-to-bear-arms decisions exemplified tensions that emerged when judges confronted claims about natural rights and positive rights. For Burke, then, the true natural rights of men are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of ... When one adds the necessary distinctions between natural law as ethics, as political theory, and as jurisprudence or between natural law and natural rights, its ... Natural rights were those rights vested in people by natural law. So, for example, John Locke held that God's natural law provided that 'no one ought to harm ... The first right-to-bear-arms decisions exemplified tensions that emerged when judges confronted claims about natural rights and positive rights. What is Natural Rights ... Those rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal , fundamental ...