It is what makes our government so different. Our constitution and bill of rights don't say what I CAN do. They say what the government CAN'T do. Our rights are inherent natural rights. We fight to keep them not to get them.

I think that is why other countries don't understand the US and its culture of hating it's own government and gun love. They are subjects of their government. They received their rights from the government when monarchies gave power over to parliaments.

Also we are a young country closer to our founding and our standing military is only a recent thing that didn't exist in near its current capacity a hundred years ago.