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The longer guns continue being a problem, the likelier we get to electing the legislative body needed to pass a new amendment canceling the 2A in its entirety. The longer it stands, the harder it gets to pass the compromise measures needed to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people, and so the problem keeps getting worse.
Can't wait for only billionaires and their armed thugs to be the only ones able to defend themselves
laughs in actual civilised country
You gunfuckers are hilarious.
Looks around
Gestures broadly
You're the type of guy that says "well I just did a thing"
You should really read up about the amendment process. It's not something that Congress can do by itself, it requires 75% of the 50 states to ratify it after the initial hurdles. It's not going to happen, because there will always be at least 13+ states that will vote to keep the 2nd Amendment, and that's a good thing. You should be happy that our rights are safe, because it's pretty fuckin' hard to get new rights, you know they don't just hand out new ones regularly.
Unenumeration of a once recognized right, wouldn't give congress the authority to inhibit people from practicing that right.
A different Supreme Court could redecide settled law just like Roe v Wade. If 2A needs to die to keep guns out of dangerous hands, then it needs to die. The absolute refusal to compromise means eventually they'll lose everything. Okay.
I don't have a problem with responsible gun ownership. You'd think they'd make some compromises to soften the resolve of the anti-gun crowd. I wouldn't be with them if we had sane laws, but here we all are.
The problem is that US law is ridiculously and unnecessarily convoluted. There's Federal law, which is supposed to be comprehensive but intentionally has holes in it that State law is supposed to flesh out for themselves. However Federal law overrules state law, meaning that State law can only ever fit inside Federal law.
This leads to Federal law being lazily written, such that it covers a far wider breadth than it was ever intended. Meanwhile, when States try to write their own laws to fill in the gap, they get overruled by Federal law.
If you have a Federal legislative body - Congress, the people who are supposed to write laws - in perpetual turmoil, and a Supreme Court that is politically stacked, then you can easily invent case law to twist whatever legislation was written decades or centuries ago into whatever you desire.
And all of this glosses over the fact that US law is written in horrible language. I dread to think the fit that a modern grammatical spell checker would go through if you copy/pasted the law into it, with how the sentence structure is drawn on with commas and bullshit. If Clippy were still around, he would've been bent so far out of shape he could hack a Nintendo Switch. Yet, because it's at the Federal level, which is detracted further from the people, there isn't enough of a public incentive to have it written plainly so that everyone could understand it.
You don't get a vote on laws, you get a vote on "representatives" who vote on laws ~~on your behalf~~ based on their financial backers.