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One other shot... The Constitution is, indeed, most emphatically not about hunting. Why, then, is Zumbo's call for the banning of certain firearms IN THE HUNTING FIELD seen as an attack on the Constitution?
To ban is to restrict. To restrict in any context at all, is to allow restriction as a concept.
What is worse, nothing in the proposed ban is functional. It is entirely cosmetic.
The restriction of firearms, either in ownership or in venue, is a limitation, an encroachment, an infringement upon the right to keep and bear arms.
If I propose a "harmless" bit of legislation that bans "assault pistols" from public places, in favor of 5-shot J-frame revolvers with wood grips only, then I have proposed a limitation of what may be borne within a venue. This is an infringement.
Now all we have to do is make a case for certain Austrian pistols to be banned from polite company because they're fugly. And then, gradually, we can limit carry pistols to comprise only those models designated "cute" by some arbitrary authority.
After all, those 1911s have no warmth and are really only appropriate for military contexts. Those Berettas aren't any better, since their brethren have been deployed with military for years. And CZ and Walther and the BHP and the XD all share features with the .mil versions, so they're out.
Prejudice does not engender obligation among those against whom discrimination is leveled.
But I digress.
Why is it "seen as an attack on the Constitution?"
Because it infringes the right to bear arms.
And the Constitution says you may not do that.
Here's a heads up:
No one has the right to go through life unoffended.
There exists no such right.
To admit of such a right would impose impossible constraints on the population at large.
I am offended at the sight of Honda pickup trucks being driven in the city. It is a brutish vehicle, suitable only for driving offroad (I've seen the ads). I therefore propose that they be banned from driving within city limits.
You can still own them, just not use them where they will offend me.