I've been and am a gun owner, have had friends both liberal and conservative that have owned and been proud of their collections and skill with them. It's only at a gun show have I heard so many armed people use racial slurs with such vehemence with a good dose of 'this'll show em'. Take it as anecdotal and it might not be your experience, but it's certainly been mine.

I haven't seen anything like that even in the South and California.

prove the point?

In fact as progressives we should oppose giving up rights for any reason....always.

Unless you also support the right to use religion to not sell flowers and cakes to certain groups of people. So, be careful with "any reason".

...and are no more actual 'rights' than the supposed 'right to feel safe' sometimes mooted
at DU by those of the ammophobic persuasion

Using the 2nd to force someone to join a local militia against his or her will?

Amendment 2 restricts only government, and authorizes nothing.

I'm sure someone could say it does and it would go to court. As it only restricts government, what's to stop a local group saying the Constitution requires all people of a certain age be part of the militia......

than saying religious reasons prevent a public business from serving people they don't like.

No apples and oranges comparison you might come up with can change that.

You are just not seeing it.

Asked my lawyer friend and he says it's apples and apples.

Get someone else to chase down the rabbit hole.

Conscription has been repeatedly upheld without any reference whatsoever to the Second Amendment.

In fact, the Second Amendment is only a limitation on government, as is much of the Bill of Rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States

but what is the Peter Principle?

IIRC, It posited that an individual or organization would rise, until they reached a point of utter incompetence and stay there while they slowly died off.

It could easily be pointed out that that's where gun control arrived several years ago.

...so it will double as the usual obsession controllers have for Penis®.