If the liberals felt about gun rights the way they do abortion or obamacare, we’d be required to pay for other people’s guns whenever they wanted one, and we’d have to buy one ourselves or pay a fine (err tax).
...except that the militia is variantly either the whole of the people; or all male citizens from 17 and 45, or older if they previously served in the military.
There were several early laws which required just that: that the militia be fully armed, that they be regulated by minimum standards of personally owned firearms and sufficient personal ammunition on hand, and provision for the poor to have arms and ammunition purchased for them.
If liberals regarded the 2nd Amendment with the same regard they have for the 1st Amendment they would demand that everyone be armed … all the time.
The liberals view the ACLU's defense of the 1st Amendment as a good thing and at the same time they view the NRA's defense of the 2nd Amendment as a bad thing.
OK, I think I understand the whole progressive temptation a little better now, because I just flashed on Dianne Feinstein being made to buy me an AR...and the idea felt good...