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True, but this entire time we have been debating rights vs privileges purely in the sense of legal entitlement. It should have been abundantly clear that I didn't mean it in sense of thankfulness in...

Now that I re-read it, it did come off a bit cunty. I didn't intend it to. What I'm trying to say is, privilege gives the impression that you acknowledge you aren't legally, socially or ethically...

Exactly. Purposely referring to your rights as privileges shows that you aren't prepared to stand up for them.

A right is defined as a legal entitlement to have or do something. Nowhere does it say that a legal entitlement has to be inherent, irrevocable and applied to all humans to be classed as a right. ...

right
noun
a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something

Everyone is legally entitled to apply for a firearms license. Everyone who meets the criteria is legally entitled to a firearms...

If you meet the criteria for a firearms license, then it is a given that the application will be allowed. The police can't just refuse to issue you a licence because they feel like it. If you're up...

The Arms Code is the Police's interpretation of the Arms Act, the Code itself has no legal standing. Privilege, implies that the police/government own our freedom and are fully entitled to restrict...

People referring to firearm ownership as a privilege worries me.