Sorry to disappoint, a treatise is exactly what you will get and need.
Over the past century there has been too much "deconstruction" of basic precepts by all the usual suspects to the point where the most inane arguments are accepted without protest by all the people who should know better.
Surely you remember the debate about "teenagers who never use their turn signals" so the only reason a teenager (obey the law) would use a turn signal is to insidously entrap a policeman on videotape into threatening to make up charges against said teenager?
Or perhaps the debate where 142 of the best and brightest contemporaty minds undergoing college level education should turn off said minds and hsyterically flee simulteaneously en masse through two or three available lecture hall openings rather than use their minds to disarm and disable a lone gunman who could not possibly control 142 individuals without their individual consent and assistance.
There has been way too much compartmentalization and hairsplitting tolerated in recent public discourse and the only way to prevail is to strike at root causes.
If you want to pick fly turds out of black pepper for your entire life feel free, just do not expect We the People to join you.
Sir, I have a challenge for you -
Rent a boat. Sail it up the Anacostia River in DC, on a hot, balmy night. Anchor at the north end of the river, and be sure to sleep below the waterline.
In the morning, get back to me about how “handguns are not in common use” in DC.
If you live.
Oh, and from where your boat is anchored on the Anacostia, you are within a mile of the USSC and the US Capitol Bldg, as you dodge bullets to save your life.
What do you mean, not in common use?