CMV: People taking the hard line on gun rights are implicitly giving more weight to the second amendment than to any other right on the bill of rights

Well, I think your main problem here is you think saying "this a fundamental civil liberty enshrined in the legal document that ultimately governs our society" is a bad argument. It really isn't. But regardless of whether it is (again, it isn't), it's equally true of all of those liberties. The second amendment isn't more special than the rest, nor is it treated as more special than the rest in argument. Those civil liberties are infringed more often in the 2A context than basically any other (for example fifth amendment protections are taken extremely seriously and almost never impaired by law). So they're not privileging the amendment in that sense. And people do make arguments about why they should be allowed to own guns besides the amendment (overthrow government, protect family, kill predators, hunt, sport, etc etc). So the amendment isn't privileged in that way either.

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