Hah! If you truly believe that the 2A is the bulwark that secures our freedoms, then don't do stupid stuff that will result in the demise of the 2A.
Too many here are too stubborn to believe it, but the individual RKBA - the right that secures your natural right to defend you person and your personal property - exists by reason of a 5-4 SCOTUS majority. That's it. That's all. The decision affirming the individual right was joined by each conservative SCOTUS member, and rejected by every liberal one.
There is no question in my mind that if a Dem President and Senate is elected in 2020, and Clarence Thomas or another conservative steps down, then the Heller decision will be overturned and the 2A interpreted to not secure the individual right. States will be free to ban whole classes of weapons and otherwise prohibit that what you take for granted now. That is what is at stake in this election. And yet many are promising to stay home if the President, in reaction to a wave of mass shootings, dares to support doing something about it that would inconvenience gun owners in a minor way.
Gun owners have the political clout to secure the Presidency for the Democrats, and some appear willing and even eager to do that. But you do so at your peril. Your rights hang by a thread.
Don't be fools
@Jazzhead So let's say a radical Muslim - a citizen born in this country -- owns legally purchased firearms, starts talking on social media about how he is getting ready to kill infidels, and is amassing weapons and ammo to do so. Again, all weapons and ammo are legally owned. Oh yeah, and lets add to it that his sister has called the police, says that her brother is mentally ill and off his meds, and that she's afraid he's going to do something violent.
Do we have to station cops around his house and tail him 24/7 indefinitely in the event that this is the day he decides to follow through on his threats? Or do we just wait until he starts shooting people to do something about him having guns and ammo?
Because those are the kind of questions a Republican candidate is going to be asked if he states a blanket opposition to
any red flag law.