The 2nd Amendment was written for a different time.

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21. The poster didn't seem to be trying to protect guns.

The Constitution does in fact provide a means for repealing the Second Amendment and replacing it with an amendment that reflects the modern reality of guns.

But because that process requires that 3/4 of state legislatures approve the changes, we are stuck with a second amendment that defines a time when guns were top loaded muskets or pistols that required many seconds to prepare to fire one projectile and were used by people for harvesting wildlife and protection, given the remote nature of their homes from other people, in many cases.
Many modern guns can fire dozens of projectiles in a single minute, a concept that the Founders never considered, but were wise enough to allow future generations to amend the Constitution to conform to the modern realities of those generations.

Herein is the rub. Under current realities, there is no way that the Constitution will be amended to have a gun ownership component that matches the current reality of guns. Now why is that? It happens because the people that want sane gun regulation that matches constitutional wording simply are not as passionate about their goal is the people that are ok with people owning guns that have no purpose outside of war. I often read breathless OPs here on DU about the large number of people that show up to a gun reform protest, or to a BLM protest, but if only 30% of those people vote, nothing at all changes. So the issue isn’t whether the majority of us want sane gun laws or police that pay with their jobs and freedom for targeting certain citizens, the issue is whether we collectively have the determination to vote 100% in ALL elections. A case before the House now about whether to seat a republican I believe illustrates the problem that we have as progressives. I can promise you that the republican maxes out every vote that she could get, but there were most likely hundreds or thousands of people who would have voted for the Democrat that didn’t bother to vote. A similar situation occurred in Virginia in 2017, where a Democrat lost a House of Delegate seat via a game of chance (a blind drawing) after a deadlocked election - when progressives there learned their lesson and made it a habit to vote, Democrats took control of all of state government, and this week, Virginia became the first southern state to ban the death penalty through policy change.

It is not the gunners that are stopping us from enacting sane gun laws that reflect the modern nature of guns, it is us that are holding us back from that because we don’t in mass vote like voting is religion.