How then should someone who doesn't want people to have the right to own guns, go about exerting that desire?
I want terribly strict gun control in America (get rid of them all), but I am very swayed by your argument that restrictions are merely obstacles for the poor, rather than the rich.
Get enough people that feel the same way to come together in a coherent group that can wield comparable electoral influence as the NRA, for a start. That’s the absolute minimum you’ll need to get legislation enacted, and you’ll still run into Constitutional issues.
For anything resembling a complete ban, you’ll need to rewrite the second amendment which is an awfully high bar. The exact language change will be incredibly controversial in any case, but it’s one of the more vague amendments because it includes a rationale in addition to the right being protected. If you’re willing to compromise some, there may be room for clarifying the scope of the right to bear arms without removing it completely.
Same way you'd overturn any civil right. Get a two-thirds majority of states to agree and hold a constitutional convention. Probably easier to just move to a less free country.
I understand that to you, freedom means the ability to carry a gun around and decide when another person should die (i.e. at what threat level shooting them is justified).
But please don't be so dismissive - freedom to me means not having to worry about my kids being shot at school, or having to carry a gun around to defend myself with.
Other countries you describe as "less free," I'd describe as "more free."
Freedom is the absence of coercive interference over one's life. Exercising self-defense with adequate tools is affirmatively more free than being forbidden from doing so.
Safety is not freedom. Both are desirable but conceptually there is no overlap, and in reality there is often a tradeoff. Conflating the two as though safety is a form of freedom is a pretty good shibboleth for authoritarians; let alone defining freedom as the feeling of safety, which is textbook doublethink.
The US has strayed in many ways, but we seem to have the most people out of anywhere who are still invested in actual freedom.
You shouldn't. Criminalizing private firearm possession is inherently a calcification of the police state's power to control the poor and protect the status quo for the rich.
You should worry about the systemic social problems that breed violence instead of fixating on one of the tools used to carry it out. We have seen with drugs and alcohol that prohibition exacerbates these problems rather than fixing them.
I want terribly strict gun control in America (get rid of them all), but I am very swayed by your argument that restrictions are merely obstacles for the poor, rather than the rich.