We never said that.
But just because it's an Amendment does not make it Holy. You can't appeal to the Constitution as your excuse for why something should or shouldn't be legal. Remember, slavery was legal under the Constitution and the Confederacy made appeals to the Constitution for why it should remain legal. It's protection under the Constitution was part of the majority argument in the Dredd-Scott decision.
The Amendments should stand or fall on their own merits. Maybe it had some strong merits when it was written, but that's not to say the benefits are the same today. Guns are different, the wars are over, citizens do not belong to militias anymore, violence is different, and our cities have changed. We can't look at modern gun control prohibitions through the eyes of a 17th century dandy.
Phatscotty wrote:Therefore, the other 309,999,988 people cannot defend themselves?
Are guns used for defense? Well yeah, but only 2.2% of the time a gun takes a life. The logic doesn't hold fast.
"We need more guns to protect ourselves from all the people who have guns"
You take gun rights away from criminals to protect yourself, but then you do nothing to stop them from acquiring guns through a medium. You're creating the violence.
