2nd Amendment "rules" should apply to the 14th Amendment

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Some compromise. They "take" machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and various other weapons, but decide to relent on handguns, and you consider that a "give"??? ROFL.

That's not giving anything. That's just not taking as much as they originally wanted. I'll say it again: There has been no give and take; it's been all taking, and some of us want them to take more.

I guess not paying a $200 transfer tax on a every handgun purchase doesn't seem to be much of a win to you...

Actually, it doesn't seem like ANY sort of a win to me. There's a HUGE difference between winning, and not losing everything.

Correction: Some of us want to give them more, without even trying to put up a fight.

Whom might that be?

Well, there's the guy who wants to restrict gun ownership to those who complete government-mandated training, an infringement on the RKBA that the anti-gun crowd hasn't even asked for, AFAIK.

There's also the guys who want to have "red flag" laws and extended background checks, both of which are on the anti-gun agenda.

And of course, there's the NRA, which actively helped get bump stocks banned. https://home.nra.org/joint-statement

Banning semi-autos versus mandatory training isn't even an option being discussed by politicians or anti-gun groups.

I never said it was. I was just hashing around ideas to checkmate the anti's talking point for banning semi autos.

You're kidding yourself if you think that your proposed mandatory training would have even the slightest chance of checkmating the anti-gun talking point on semi-autos.

Even if mandatory training, "red flag" laws, and extended background checks all became law, there would still be mass shootings, which would be followed by more calls for a ban on semi-autos.