The government should not and must not pick and choose the constitutional rights it will and will not gauruntee.
For years the 2nd Amendment has been chipped away.
To argue that assault weapons are not protected by the 2nd Amendment is to argue that television news is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
Neither so-called "assault weapons" nor Television news existed in the time of the framing of Our Nation. How then, can the protections of the Constitution fall upon one rather than the other.
The right to own a firearm and bear it and use it is as inherently American as the right of a driveling left-wing imbecil like Piers Morgan to vomit vociferously on his news program.
Mr President. Do your job. Protect the 2nd Amendment. Don't like it, amend it. But just don't ignore it.