With all of the hysteria of late, we seem to be forgetting that the entire Bill of Rights is under assault, not just the Second Amendment.
On the positive side, a federal judge in Texas has just ruled the Clinton-Gore crime bill in violation of both the Second and Fifth amendments to the Constitution. The government has appealed, and the case may now go before the Supreme Court. The entire issue stems from what "the people" means in the context of the Second Amendment.
In a 32-page argument going back as far as A. D. 690 in English law, the judge argued that "the people" has an identical and consistent meaning in the preamble of the Constitution and in all of the amendments in which it is used. It means "the peaceable citizens" in every case, not the states or the federal government.
The Bill of Rights is not a "Bill of Privileges" that an administration, or special-interest group can alter, limit or take away with impunity. They are rights that people have fought and died for, and presumably are willing to fight and die for again. Infringing on any of these rights makes the infringer a "domestic enemy of the Constitution," and there are literally millions of Americans who have sworn a sacred oath to defend the Constitution (note that - not the government, but the Constitution) of the United States from "all enemies, both foreign and domestic."
More than a million of them are currently in uniform, and pretty much despise their commander-in- chief as a liar, philanderer and military bungler. A crime bill is one thing - but if we don't all tread carefully here, we could be looking at another civil war. In the face of so much hostility to our nation abroad, that would be tantamount to national suicide. Are we that scared of crime?