That's what many gun owners are doing.
They stand their ground on the Second Amendment. But private gun ownership is a moral question, not a Constitutional one.
A majority of Americans can change the Constitution (go see the movie Lincoln, if you have any doubt).
No one can change what's moral.
It's moral to respect another person's life. No Constitutional right invalidates that fact.
Constitutional rights may be curtailed to protect others from harms that can arise from the exercise of those rights.
I have, for example, a Constitutional right to worship freely. But it doesn't permit me to sacrifice humans (although human sacrifice might be central to my religion).
Right now, the burden is on gun owners to prove why unfettered gun ownership isn't causing terrible harm to others.
They can't.
That's because guns cause harm—by design—and are in too many private hands.
Americans have a moral reason to curtail private gun ownership, just as we curtail the ownership of dynamite, hand grenades and nuclear bombs.
Sorry gun owners: your trigger happiness isn't worth our harm.
