Excellent! Stats on gun violence

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Has anyone here studied the "Founding Fathers" enough to have a feeling about how THEY viewed the Constitution? Did they expect that it would be a living document, continually changing, or did they ever expect that parts of it like the 2A would be considered essentially sacred?

Since they made provision for amending any part of the Constitution -- including the Bill of Rights and other amendments -- it would seem that they viewed no part of it as sacred, and they intended that it could be revised as society changed. And that includes the Second Amendment.

It seems that the writers of the US Constitution liked using flowery yet technically uncompromising terms like "unalienable rights" with the tacit assumption that common sense would be applied.

It's quite possible they didn't mean that rights were literally unalienable, since their actions make it clear that when they wrote "all men" are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that they didn't mean "all people" had those rights.