This.Gun control laws from the very beginning have always been about the political elite keeping weapons out of the hands of whom they deem unworthy.
The Japanese tried it centuries ago banning firearms so regular Joe's couldn't smoke a samurai from a distance. They made all the noise about honor and stuff but it was really about power and money. It took a long time and money to train a Samurai. Then he would typically become a paid thug for some warlord who would use the guy to extort people. It just not would do to have some peasant be able to wreck them thugs.
The English freaked about it when all those pissed off Irishmen came back from the Great War.
Here in the U.S. it was about keeping Blacks from having them.
The British wanted to confiscate some things that morning on Lexington green.
Kinda hypocritical of us to tell other people you have no right to defend yourself, family, or property.
From my cold dead hands is just so much bullshit then?
Am I comfortable with it? No, not really. The catch is if "they" can be banned from the 2A then how long before "we" are? See first sentence.