Rights can't be expanded. There is no such thing as "expanding rights".
It's an odd idea I hear from both "sides"; from those who hate natural human rights and want more violations to occur, and from those calling for rights violations to be curtailed and rights to be respected. Both say "... rights are being expanded" but this is complete nonsense.
Rights are rights. They can neither be added to or taken away. They can either be respected or violated.
If the feral government is, for example, forced to stop violating the right to own and to carry weapons, or to scale back the violations, "gun rights" are not being expanded; they are being violated a little less in some specific way. Nothing new is being created.
It's the same for any other right.
If a new "law" says your neighbor has the right to fight back and kill you if you try to kill him in his home, his property rights have not been expanded. It was always within his rights, whether government recognized it or not.
If a new "law" says you have the right to kill someone because he got within 12" of your property line, your property rights haven't been expanded. A counterfeit rule has been invented that gives you "legal" protection for doing something you had no right to do.
Even if you wear a badge, and instead of stepping "too close" to your property, government said he was ingesting "illegal" substances or owned a weapon they claimed he wasn't allowed to own and sent you to rob and kidnap him.
Rights don't change with the times or the circumstances-- or with who we're referring to. They can't be expanded or abolished. Rights are immutable. Only the beliefs about them change, and those beliefs are often wrong.
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