"..Gasoline is another high explosive compound. Fuel oil and fertilizer,and a number of household chemicals as well. Then there are the home-made chemical weapons that any high school student could make. I guess we need to control access to all of these things, since they present a danger in the hands of the mentally unstable. "

False equivalency!!! As is throwing cars, hammers, knives and bug spray into that ridiculous line of non-reason.

ALL those items have many normal uses beyond 'possible' crazy ones. Guns have a very limited set of uses.... and the valid ones do NOT require high capacity magazines and rapid fire, except for police & military uses. Yet we allow many restrictions and registrations on auto registration and driving ...and even fertilizer is being restricted... and it is pretty difficult for the average nut to cause mass casualties with stuff from a high-school chem lab.

   I am so tired of the convoluted logic being used to defend a vaguely phrased 2nd amendment which was written when single-shot muzzle loaders were the standard and the need for a "well-maintained militia" meant something VERY different. If you had shown the founding fathers an AK-47, they would have rephrased that amendment VERY carefully!!!!