Why are a few restrictions (waiting periods, databases, background checks) and even a few bans (ARs and high capacity mags) incompatible with the 2nd Amendment? Certainly no one’s right to self-defense is compromised if they are “limited” to owning all the other types of firearms available besides high capacity ARs. (That is unless you think Russia is planning to invade your house.)

Shapiro really shows his nuttiness when he begins talking about tyranny taking over America in 50-100 years (where did he get those numbers…his ass, I suppose). Even more irrationally, he seems to believe that ARs in civilian hands could be the crucial line of defense that prevents the establishment of such a tyranny. But if a tyrannical govt does arise and attempts to impose a dictatorship, the overall number of ARs in America is very unlikely to be the deciding factor. All the other types of weapons currently owned by civilians will do just as well, which means not well at all against the world’s most powerful military…a few thousand more ARs won’t tip the balance.

Shapiro’s fantasy of a 2nd American Revolution/Civil War is not only reckless, it reveals the character of someone who sees his side losing a cultural struggle and can’t come up with a nonviolent solution, so…war it must be.