The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd Amendment confers the right to keep and bear arms on individual Americans.
Interpreting the 2nd Amendment, as many politicians still do, in a way that nullifies it ("I believe in the 2nd Amendment but not that it applies to individuals") is indistinguishable from believing in its abolition, and no different in theory than supporting the abolition of any other part of the Bill of Rights.
I have no issue with people who seek a constitutional amendment to remove the 2nd Amendment. I do have an issue with people who favour gun control measures that have been ruled by the Supreme Court as violations of the 2nd Amendment but still claim to support the Bill of Rights.
Americans have an individual, inalienable and fundamental right to possess firearms. This is not my opinion, it is the opinion of the highest court in the land, and the only body with the constitutional authority to decide this issue. If you disagree, you do not support the Bill of Rights in its entirety.
Your strawman arguments about things that are already illegal and have never been in dispute (did the NRA have a "let convicted felons own guns" campaign I missed?) may not be bumper sticker politics but that is only because they are verbosely misleading rather than concisely so.
Interpreting the 2nd Amendment, as many politicians still do, in a way that nullifies it ("I believe in the 2nd Amendment but not that it applies to individuals") is indistinguishable from believing in its abolition, and no different in theory than supporting the abolition of any other part of the Bill of Rights.
I have no issue with people who seek a constitutional amendment to remove the 2nd Amendment. I do have an issue with people who favour gun control measures that have been ruled by the Supreme Court as violations of the 2nd Amendment but still claim to support the Bill of Rights.
Americans have an individual, inalienable and fundamental right to possess firearms. This is not my opinion, it is the opinion of the highest court in the land, and the only body with the constitutional authority to decide this issue. If you disagree, you do not support the Bill of Rights in its entirety.
Your strawman arguments about things that are already illegal and have never been in dispute (did the NRA have a "let convicted felons own guns" campaign I missed?) may not be bumper sticker politics but that is only because they are verbosely misleading rather than concisely so.