The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms ... a sedate settled design upon another ...
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Modern debates about the meaning of the Second ...
Put another way: The right to keep and bear arms would still be there without the Second Amendment. Like the right not to suffer political or religious repression, it exists with or without the law.