Bullsuit. Gun violence has not reached new heights and the 2A was and is not contingent on present or future crime statistics.
They always change the parameters to fit the narrative.
Certainly, the Second Amendment protects our right to keep and bear hunting arms, and to take to the field in due season to kill wild animals for food. But this is not why we have a Second Amendment.
Certainly, the Second Amendment protects our right to keep personal defense arms, to carry them about with us, to defend ourselves against murderers, robbers, rapists, burglars, and the like. But this is not why we have a Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment protects our right to keep and bear MILITARY arms, to practice with them, to hold them otherwise in abeyance ... unless and until tyrants threaten the Security of a Free State. This is why we have a Second Amendment ... and this is why tyrants and would-be tyrants always seek to chip away at the Second Amendment.