We must understand that this has all happened before, and for the same reasons. It is essential that defenders of the 2nd Amendment understand the whole Bill of Rights is under attack by the Drug War, and that assaults on the 2nd Amendment are a natural part of that trend. It is that guns are implements which are too dangerous to entrust to the citizenry. It is that drugs are substances which are too dangerous to entrust to the citizenry. Both lines of reasoning say that because a few people abuse something, all Americans must be treated like children or irresponsibles.
All use is abuse.
This is an extremely dangerous idea for a government, and it leads inevitably to tyranny. It is a natural consequence that such thinking will lead to attacks on the Bill of Rights, because that is the chief defense in the constitution against abuses of government power. Since the beginning of the Drug War, no article of the Bill of Rights has been spared from attack. There has been an enoromous increase in police power in America, with a steady erosion of protections against unreasonable search and seizure, violations of privacy, confiscation of property, and freedom of speech. We have encouraged children to inform on their parents and we tolerate urine tests as a condition of employment for anyone.