I'm not pro-gun. I'm pro-arm. Because the 2nd amendment protects arms. Arms are any common weapon of war. If it's used in most wars of the current era, you should have it. It's funny when they label the AR-15 a weapon of war, and not useful as a hunting weapon. Exactly. The constitution does not protect recreational equipment. The fact that is is primarily designed to kill people is specifically what makes it protected. The fact that the AR-15 sort of wasn't designed for war but is a partial variation of a weapon that was M-16, kind of makes the M-16 more protected than the AR-15 if our judges understood what the word arm means. This is the problem with precedent. It becomes the historic case that the second amendment has been used to protect the right to guns and the word gun becomes synonymous with the word arm because that's what arm ends up referring to in legal practice. Meanwhile items both below and above in lethality end up not protected by the second amendment. They can ban knives somehow. They can ban full automatics from common sale. Yet right in the middle, that's protected. It's constitutional tokenism. The semi-automatic gun becomes the token if having followed the constitution, and as long as that token exists no other rational claim following the constitution and be considered a requirement of it. Take the 5th Amendment. Avoiding self incrimination. What it's intended to do is to make it so the government can't say, testify against yourself or you will receive a punishment for it. That is causing differential punishment based on one's testimony against themselves. But that's what a plea deal is. Instead we get the token of, the 5th amendment refers to being able to plead the 5th in court. So you can't be compelled to testify against yourself. Receiving a greater punishment than you otherwise would if you did tattle on yourself is complement. Take the 8th Amendment. Says no excessive fines. Token application of it is no torture. The fact that there is other text in that amendment doesn't even matter.