Gun-Control Advocacy: Mostly Demagoguery | National Review
Of course, it would be politically difficult to repeal the Second Amendment. That is by design. The Bill of Rights, i.e. America s Great Big List of Important Stuff You Idiots Don t Get a Vote On, is part of what makes American democracy liberal rather than illiberal. There are rules above and beyond the reach of majorities, which tend to be temporary and fickle, and those rules are there because our Founding Fathers knew that it is easy to buffalo people into giving up their own civil rights and to appeal to their baser instincts when attacking the civil rights of others. They knew from their own experience that demagogues can exploit fear, hatred, envy, and every other vice inherent in the demos.
As the old saying goes, the Second guards the First.