The 'Gun Control' Industry Has Never Been Serious
About Plans to Wage Their War on Guns

When left-leaning activists and commentators are venting on ["gun violence"], they often go straight to "guns are the problem" or "we have too many guns." But consider what it would take to actually eliminate or vastly reduce the number of guns in the country. A sharp ban on new gun sales faces, first, formidable legal obstacles: not just the Second Amendment but also the bills of rights in the constitutions of 45 states would need to be amended or radically reinterpreted. Amendments would require dozens of majority or supermajority votes — for example, amending the federal Constitution requires the consent of two-thirds of Congress and passing 38 state legislatures.

Rewriting those amendments out of the federal and state constitutions by creative judicial interpretation, besides being an attack on the whole concept of written law and the Bill of Rights, would itself require a seismic political shift in the composition of the judiciary.

And that's not counting the political earthquake that would be required to get serious gun bans through Congress and/or the state legislatures. …