I don't think anyone is arguing that "technology changed" is, by itself, sufficient reason to narrow a constitutional right. The argument is that technology changed, society changed, population density changed, policing changed, and the observable outcomes changed. The First Amendment is actually a poor analogy because it does not routinely produce tens of thousands of deaths per year. When speech causes direct harm - threats, fraud, libel, incitement - we regulate the misuse. We don't simply shrug and say "it's a right". Likewise, nobody is proposing abolishing the Second Amendment because technology advanced. The discussion is whether a right written in 1791 should be interpreted without regard to the consequences it produces in 2026. And this is where the argument often becomes circular. - The Second Amendment exists because it exists. - The right should remain unchanged because it's a right. - The outcomes don't matter because it's a right. At some point constitutional principles have to be weighed against real-world results, otherwise no amendment could ever be questioned, modified or reinterpreted. The uncomfortable reality is that every other developed democracy has access to the same modern technology, the same internet, the same social media, the same mental health challenges and the same human failings. What they generally don't have is America's firearm mortality rate. That's why the outcomes keep coming back into the discussion. Not because rights don't matter, but because outcomes matter too.
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