If most Americans do actually want to have gun ownership as a legal right, that's their business. What strikes me as strange is a situation where this is seen as a constitutional right, rather than as a matter to be determined on a democratic basis of what most people actually want.

That doesn't really seem too democratic, especially since the amendment involved is so very strangely worded, with that "properly regulated militia" qualification hanging in the air.

In the list of important things to have, guns seem pretty low in the list. And yet all the other things - mobile phones, computes, cars. jobs, health care - are left to sink or swim on their own, without any constitutional amendments.

Is there another country in the world where there is this kind of special preserved protection for guns? Plenty of places where gun ownership is relatively easy, but that's another matter entirely. If the Swiss decided it might be a good idea to change their law they'd just have a referendum to determine whether to do so or not.