[schismsubv]

I see. So beyond the noisome insistence that you understand the Constitution and US history better than all the Supreme Courts in history, you simply wanted some strawmen to knock down. For someone that's studied philosophy as much as you state you have, I expected better. A machine gun, for example - I actually couldn't care about them in the least, I'm not their target market. They are, to your analogy, like race cars - expensive, often highly regulated devices that are not allowed for use in public spaces.

There are many vastly greater ills that plague our society; it is regrettable that intelligent people like you choose to waste so much hate and energy fighting something that has such a relatively miniscule effect on society. Prison reform, for example. Smoking cessation, for another. Drug law reform or repeal. There are myriad more solvable and more effective ills to correct that have actual strong causative effects.

I'm not interested in continuing this conversation further, whatever followup you may make.

[edit: dropping an errant comma]