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Precisely my point. Just replace Freedom of Speech with the 2nd amendment. Unlike freedom of speech though, more people are way more likely to agree, "yeah, I think the government should have authority to chose who and who does not have guns.".
The diferance is that the worse I can do with my pen is give some people bad ideas. Or write emo poetry. The most I can do with my assault rifle is mow down a school full of people. There's a pressing reason to put some restrictions on guns. Maybe not full-out ban them, but make sure that the people that do have guns aren't the ones that are going to go crazy on us. I mean, I'm sure even you'd agree that a murderer, even one who has served his time, should probably not have a gun. This is vastly different than the ability to write down your opinion. There is no justifiable reason to restrict that.