As a nation, we let the 2nd Amendment get away from us. We let people rationalize a law meant for single-shot rifles used by militia formed to defend their homes from the British Army, to be evolve into the authorized/encouraged use of every weapon every produced, sans tanks/fight jets. If it can fire a projectile, it's our right to not only own it, but carry it, and use it, publicly.

How did we get here?
The NRA and its lobbying efforts, combined with spineless US Representatives too easily bought, are a factor. Broad senseless personal interpretation of 2A is a factor.
---------------
"BY GREG PRICE ON 3/27/18 AT 12:16 PM EDT: oung activists calling for more gun control legislation should be more ambitious in their nationwide effort and focus on repealing the Second Amendment, according to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

In an op-ed published Tuesday in The New York Times, Stevens praised the students and young people who rallied in Washington and around the country over the weekend as part of the March for Our Lives. The demonstration was sparked by the shooting last month at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 people, including 14 students, dead.

Stevens wrote that he had "rarely" seen such a wide scope of "civic engagement" from young people in his lifetime and encouraged their efforts to go even further. "That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms," Stevens wrote. "But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment." But the Supreme Court has generally been skeptical of measures to rein in gun rights." [ end copy and paste. ]

What we're up against: " A 2015 tweet by Texas Governor Greg Abbott calling on Texans to buy more guns has resurfaced online in the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde on Tuesday.

Abbott, a Republican who's served as governor of Texas since 2015, was commenting on a Houston Chronicle article that said requests to buy guns had topped one million for year in the state. He wrote on Twitter that he was "embarrassed" by the fact that Texas wasn't the number one state in the nation for new gun purchases.

"Let's pick up the pace Texans." he wrote, tagging gun rights advocacy group the National Rifle Association of America (NRA)."

This would be the same governor issuing pious statements post-shooting, the same gov scheduled to address the NRA annual convention in Houston this weekend, along with fellow idiot Sen. Cruz.

Columbine shocked us. Sandy Hook numbed us into dis-belief. Buffalo and Lagunas Ca shootings ten days ago angered us. And here we sit, all these years later, with a too-long list of school massacres and mass shootings on record, untold heartbreak, mourning all over again. When we have over 400m guns in America, what do we think is going to happen? When a computer program is allowed to be developed that makes guns, what do we expect? When we allow weapons and ammo specifically designed for military and law enforcement to be sold retail, what do we expect? We have more than enough gun laws, ostensibly. What we also have is a public demanding the right to carry anything produced, and a representative body frozen and afraid to act.

This, will continue to happen, until we stop it. If you haven't written your rep, you're part of the problem. If you believe guns don't kill people, people do, you're part of the problem. If you think citizens should be able to buy, carry, and use anything produced, you're part of the problem. It's way past time to re-write 2a for the 21st century, and stop letting an 18th century sentence control us, and kill us, and divide us. Enough already.