> The same lawmakers can ban smoking in public places so they can ban guns too.

Wrong.

There's no Constitutional guarantee of a right to smoke.

A Constitutional guarantee is inviolable. And guns are more popular than cigarettes, so to speak.

What's more, wiseguys, people have been organizing and urging and lobbying for stricter gun laws (not an unconstitutional "ban on guns") since the 1960s. And they still are.

Limited results, including a law ending the manufacture of assault weapons for civilians (1994). But Congress allowed it to expire ten years after they passed it.