This is what the prohibitionists really mean when they throw out terms like “gun sense” :
The early grabbers actually admitted it from the start until they figured out they needed to reach their goal through incremental lies.
Speaking of ‘Commonsense Gun Safety Laws’…
I’m guessing that neither of those gentlemen (and way too many others) are familiar with US v Cruikshank (1876) in which SCOTUS ruled that RKBA did not come from the Second Amendment or the US Constitution and was not dependent upon either for its existence.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/92/542/
So since RKBA was not established by the Second Amendment, it would not be eliminated if that amendment was repealed. However, in accordance with Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence” text (as amended), any repeal and/or infringements of the right would have a bearing on the US Government’s standing as a “just” government.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Sometimes, in my darker moods, I find myself wishing they’d repeal the damn thing so we could just get things over and done with one way or the other.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.” — Thomas Paine
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7796674-if-there-must-be-trouble-let-it-be-in-my
Points lost on Democrat SCOTUS prohibitionists…