"[M]onopoly profits exist over the long run only when the government guarantees them, as in utilities and cable. And for concentration of market power, no robber baron can hold a candle to the U.S. government.... The hugest concentration of market power in this country does not lie with the likes of Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates, but with government itself.... No private company, no matter how huge or wealthy, could possibly have as much widespread power over the function of American markets as government does." ~ Brian Doherty
Self-Defense Is a Civil Right
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No, it is NOT a civil right, it is a natural right.
Natural rights are rights not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable[1]. In contrast, legal rights [civil and political rights] are those bestowed onto a person by the law of a particular political and legal system[2], and therefore relative to specific cultures and governments.
"All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights - among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property..."
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[1] "You have rights antecedent to [existed before] all earthly governments, rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws..." ~ John Adams (1735-1826)
[2] Civil and political rights are a class of rights based upon birthright into a polity[2a]...
[2a] A polity is a state or one of its subordinate civil authorities, such as a province, prefecture, county, municipality, city, or district. ~ Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed., West Publishing Co., (1968)