Aren't Rights bestowed upon us by the Creator and unalienable? In other words, do we lose our right to self defense if we at one time in our lives disobeyed a law that just so happened to be punishable by over a year in jail? Do we forever lose our right to worship God as we choose?
That will work, but I still want to know the theory under which the bearing of arms is a right but personal liberty is not.