We should avoid talking to each other through the newspapers. Please do any of these rather than criticize one another in the press. And this is some of the dirtiest I've seen, or smelled. You could cover the body with stars and color each tentacle red, white, or blue. What pusillanimous, self-serving drivel.
Reality is reality.
Given the history and personalities involved, if the guarantees those amendments represent hadn't been intended to be absolute and perpetual, the Founders wouldn't have bothered making them. Even so, rights aren't a gift of the Founders, they've existed since the dawn of human history. Repeal the Second Amendment and my fundamental and inherent right to the means of self-defense would not be altered or diminished. Guns save vastly more lives than they take. A few thousand each year suffer wrongful death where a gun is the instrument.