Gun Control & RKBA

Rights obviously change... ask black people.

But aside from that if the constitution changes you'll no longer have a right to a gun. If you think you have some sort of god given right to a handgun ... well... that's just nuts.

Comparing eugenics to protecting society from guns, which hey every other western society has managed to do, is absurd on its face. Pretty much the entire western world has freedom, and often more freedom than america, and still manages to not have rampant gun violence. The retrograde opinion is that the right to weaponry is integral to freedom; it's not. It's a blight on America that butchers thousands of innocents a year.

As for the Bill of Rights, amendments etc. As you well know the congress and courts change their opinion regularly on what the constitution means. And the FF created a constitution that COULD be changed, so that - say - if 600,000 people were killed by guns in 20 years something could be done about it. Trying to pretend that Jefferson would've seen thousands of dead kids and just shrugged, like modern gun fanatics do in America - is, at best, a stretch.

Jefferson had a habit of listing things in order of importance, when writing or giving speeches; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hard for me to think he'd prize your liberty over a thousands of toddlers lives.