I understand your position. We both understand how things are *supposed* to be.
I am just saying that based on our track record, these things we believe are "rights" are in fact treated more like privileges. Convicted felons don't have the right to legally own a firearm. That just took enough supplicant voters to support politicians who would pass a law that is a proscription on felon gun ownership. I'll point out there are plenty of felonies you can be charged with/commit that don't involve violence, so there's no reason as far as public safety goes to forbid a felon to own a gun. Yet we do it, and it's a forgone conclusion that it's the right thing to do.
You're fine with this because it matches with your value set. I'll call you neither a villain nor a fool for believing what you want to believe, but I do hope you understand the more you support forbidding guns for different reasons, the less moral ground you have to stand on when enough voters send lawmakers your way to take your guns. Doesn't matter what the reason is. You're saying that as long as enough voters believe this or that type of person cannot legally own a gun, then it's valid.
That is all that I'm saying. We either believe that a free man can own a gun or we sic the tyranny of the majority vote on who can and cannot.
