[robertpaulsen]

"If your objective was to get firearms out of the hands of ordinary citizens and under exclusive control of the government would you do or argue anything differently than what he has?"

If the objective was to get firearms out of the hands of ordinary citizens and under exclusive control of the government, I'd get people convinced that the second amendment protects their RKBA ... then pull a nationwide Washington DC gun confiscation move, leaving the residents wondering, "Wha happened? I thought the second amendment protected my rights!"

Admit it. You guys work for the VPC, right? I bet you know Sarah Brady personally.

[tacticalogic]

If the objective was to get firearms out of the hands of ordinary citizens and under exclusive control of the government, I'd get people convinced that the second amendment protects their RKBA ... then pull a nationwide Washington DC gun confiscation move, leaving the residents wondering, "Wha happened? I thought the second amendment protected my rights!"

I don't believe you're dumb enough to think Washington could execute a national gun confiscation. Too much at once. This is a "divide and conquer" strategy. One state at a time.

[Dead Corpse]

If the objective was to get firearms out of the hands of ordinary citizens and under exclusive control of the government

Which is what you are doing now. You are arguing that there is no "Right" to begin with and that the plain meaning of the text written doesn't mean exactly what the Founders said it meant.