Our Nation is Paralyzed by the Fear of Violating the Second Amendment

   If we were to let the students vote on whether to have metal detectors, and armed officers, and all other questions regarding school safety at their schools, it would belie the fact they still would be able to make the one decision many of  them want to make.
   Whether to ban guns, at least assault-type weapons.
That, it would appear, cannot be their decision.
But, should it be ours? Should we, the adults, be deciding whether to ban guns? Or, is it a Constitutional question, one beyond not only the reach of kids, but beyond our reach as well?
   What is written is what is written (meaning the Constitution) and is too sacrosanct to be messed with?
The shifting sands of society create surprises. One would not have thought there would be such wide-spread acceptance of same-sex marriage. Now, the Second Amendment? It has been sacrosanct. Is that day nearing an end?
   I judge that for the moment, it remains sacrosanct. How long that remain, I do not know. But, we are frozen, as a nation, on what to do on guns, and it might be that the reason we are frozen is because we fear going against the Second Amendment.
   Think of the protests. In them is pressure. Think of the outcry for change, the demand to do something.
   And, yet nothing, The best we've done is a little movement on bump stocks. Meaningful legislation? None.
School shootings sprouting up everywhere, a national outcry to do something about them, and yet our nation's leaders can come up with no solutions. And, I will tell you why (or, at least I wonder if this is why): If they come up with anything at all, it will be considered gun control. We have it in our heads that any rules we make on guns means we are are adopting gun control and gun control is forbidden by the inspired document known as the Constitution.
   No matter that we already have metal detectors at airports and they are a huge success. We cannot have them in our schools because that would be gun control. For the moment, we are more frozen by our fear of violating the Second Amendment than we ever have been. We already have background checks, but we will not expand them to provide that even those buying privately and at gun  shows must be checked. No, for the moment, we are too frozen to do that.
  Perhaps the reason we are frozen is because there is a connection. Our champions of the Second Amendment see the students and others protesting, and can see where the path is leading and know the day could come when guns might be outlawed.
   They see a slippery slope. They fear that if they allow give in to any gun control at all, the dam will give way, and soon, guns will be outlawed.  They see the connection between giving a little and losing a lot -- losing even everything.