The Second Amendment (as well as the other Amendments) did not grant or bestow any new right on citizens; rather, it simply recognized and provided, in the words of James Wilson, “a new security” to the already existing, natural, God-given rights of citizens for their own self-defense. As Alexander Hamilton affirmed: [T]he Supreme Being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He … invested him [man] with an inviolable right to personal liberty