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“I’m thinkin’ the 2nd doesn’t “create” a right. It was supposed to guarantee that NO ONE could mess with your right to keep and bear. If you see it as “creating”, okay.”

rktman is correct. The RKBA pre-dated the Constitution. That document ONLY created the government, and set the parameters for its structure and operations (including, especially with the Bill of Rights, restrictions on its power). If the 2nd was repealed tomorrow, the RKBA would still exist - we humans have the right to defend our lives, our families, our communities and our liberties just because we are human, NOT because some ancient piece of parchment with a few squiggly lines on it says so.

It is much more than semantics, by the way - it is about one’s entire outlook on the nature of our government. Government was set up to protect our rights, our liberties. You might find some of these words to be familiar (and, if not, then put them into a Google search and learn):

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”