Your feigned concern is duly noted…

In response to your first question: In order to satisfy the prefatory clause of the Second Amendment, the sovereign State has a compelling interest to ensure that its citizens are knowledgeable and possess at least a minimal proficiency in the handling and use of military style firearms, and high-capacity magazines are commonly used in the normal course of their operation. Which proves the inaccuracy of the left’s narrative, and provides the answer to your second question.

“truth: right now we are losing the battle of public opinion”

If by “we” you mean the Obama Administration, the anti-Second Amendment zealots and their supporters on the left, then that statement would be true.

I must say that you are very entertaining and I’m being sincere. Around the same time you made this comment, you also made this comment on EE’s post, “Where I Am on the Debt Ceiling Fight”: “Stop listening to talk radio (they have nothing enlightening to say) and MSM (that includes Fox). They never explain why anything actually happens and just foster cynicism and fatalism.” Fine.
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But now you’re quoting the MSM about high capacity magazines. I’m laughing at your logic and find it amusing but I’m not trying to be condesending.
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If I lived on a ranch at or near the border in TX or AZ, I’d want the biggest clip I could get my hands on to keep my family safe from the government encouraged gun-runners…just saying it’s better to be safe than sorry

Just in case you are serious, I will explain my take. It is called salami slicing. The bad guy comes into your house and takes a thin slice of your salami and eats it. You don’t fight him, because it is just one thin slice, and you have the whole rest of the salami left. But, then he comes back and does it again, and again, and yet again. Each time it is just one thin slice, not worth fighting over. But, eventually he has taken all of your salami and you have none left. The moral of this story is that you must fight sometime or lose everything. The time to fight is over that first thin slice in order to stop the bad guy before he has taken what is rightfully yours! Not after it is all, or even mostly, gone. It is not even at the second slice, but at the very beginning. You must understand that this is a bad guy who thinks he is entitled to what is yours, and if you don’t disabuse him of his error, he will keep coming back until you have lost everything. And, just so we are all clear on this–taking all our guns is actually that first slice!!! Taking our large capacity magazines, or our pistol grip rifles, or our bayonet clips, or whatever is merely the first slice towards confiscating all our guns. But, taking all our guns is merely the first step toward total tyranny, which is their end goal. “If not now, when? If not me, who?” “If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem”! If the first person to face the confiscators gives in, then the rest of our freedoms are put in that much more danger. If that first person refuses “with extreme prejudice”, and the next, and the next, then eventually our freedoms are that much more secure. The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting or target shooting. It is not even about protecting homes from burglars or kidnappers or whatever. It IS about protecting ourselves from our government, and always has been!!! Learn the total history of the Second Amendment and you will see what the truth is.

We’re ‘losing the battle for public opinion’, to a public that many times proven, knows little to nothing.
Did you happen to see ‘Jimmy Kimmel ‘ last week where his producers asked people on the street about ” The Inaugural ” that had not even yet happened ?
These ‘noobs’ were asked about teddy bear-throwing to the crowds, a non-existent monster cake hand-out, and various and sundry similar non-happenings.
…and each and every one of them swore they watched things and events, that never, ever occurred.
So please, spare me the ‘Public Opinion’ semi-blather. While this ‘ Was’ a thumb-nail sketch, it is somewhat instructive .
With all the gunowners we already had/have and all the seeming new ones , Public Opinion in general, is not a biggie to me.
Now, “people seeing things that aren’t there” is a real,Societal problem only Progressives can remedy……….

The effort to ban guns that are hardly used in crimes is simple. When it fails to reduce the crime rates, it will give the Grabbers both reason and precedent to come after the rest of the guns. Those that agree with the ban of some weapons that are hardly used in crimes will gladly approve the ban of the weapons actually used in crimes.