@CreamSeparatist @kekservative @ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty @folk @s Against my better judgment, lemme take this stupid bait:
Even by your own definition of a "right", a definition no one else on earth uses, in which someone has to shoot someone else for a right to exist, people have shot people to maintain the republic, which safeguards these rights. The Revolutionary War was specifically for the right to self-governance, and what we do with that is what they died for. You've got to use an idiosyncratic definition of "right" to say the right doesn't exist, and you've also got to ignore anything one degree separated from the thing you're talking about. Saying that people have not fought and died to safeguard these rights is like saying somebody has not fed their family by working because a paycheck is not beef.
Next time there's a war with an existential threat, you feel free to survey the soldiers. Little checkboxes, sheet of paper on your clipboard, all "Are you willing to die in this war?" and "Which of these rights are you fighting to protect? Please check as many as apply."