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In my opinion the Gun Control Stalemate entails an underlying reality that can't be broken. The framers of the Constitution included the RKBA as a balance for a tyrannical, over-reaching government. I'm confident that the framers would be aghast at the oft-taken position that citizens are, or should be, precluded from having 'military grade' weapons. What they had in mind was that that citizens should have the same weaponry that would be used against them should the government begin to abuse its power. The RKBA wasn't limited to 'one level below police and military': they have muskets, you can have edged weapons; they have automatic weapons, you can have semi-autos...

The anti-gun crowd sees firearms as intrinsically evil implements that are meant to kill. Well, yes, they are. The underlying reasoning was, whether anti-gunners like it or not, that citizens not become subjects of a government that can use its might of arms to enslave them, remove their rights or enact laws or policies that those civilians see as tyrannical; that, at the end of the day, we could shoot and kill the 'revinooers' should it come to that.

Would the anti-gun crowd argue that only moveable type printing presses run by hand one page at a time be the only press that enjoys First Amendment protection? How about the Establishment Clause; could the government establish Scientology as the official religion of the nation since it's new to this century? How about search and seizure? Are all wire-taps legal since the framers didn't foresee phones and email?

The anti-gun crowd seems to easily understand that the rights conferred by the Bill of Rights for the other 9 Amendments (okay, maybe not so much on the 10th) are conceptually driven with an underlying basis that is not changed by technology, time or circumstance. Their emotional mindset regarding those icky, horrible guns overcomes the ability to reason through the conceptualization that MY RKBA has the same philosopical underpinnings as THEIR freedom of speech or THEIR freedom of the press.

Imagine the horror that would be created should we suggest that the freedom of speech should be removed from those with a history of mental health problems; or that convicted felons should lose 4th Amenendment protections since they are proven crimnals; or that freedom of religion isn't important because nobody needs religion.

If we are to Break The Gun Control Stalemate, the anti-gun crowd is going to have to get in touch with what the Constitution means.... yeah, like that's going to happen.