Do you have to get permission from the government to exercise free speech outside your home? Can you be denied your right to remain silent based on what state you live in? What other right can simply be denied to adults?
Treating the 2nd Amendment like a first-class right is hardly 'expanding' it.
You can still see consequences from yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Let's not pretend that there can be no reasonable constraints on these things.
With respect to yelling "fire" - you're not charged with the speech, you're charged with inciting the ensuing panic.
With respect to the militia - the words "the people" are used in several places in close proximity to the usage in the Second Amendment. The meaning of "the people" in the Second Amendment can't be construed to mean "the militia" without some serious mental gymnastics.
Is part of an overturned court case. And even before it was overturned, the limit wasn't that you couldn't yell 'fire', the limit was you couldn't create harm via your actions. (Ex, if there was a fire, you did nothing illegal by saving others).
To circle this back to the 2nd Amendment. One can own and carry a gun, one can even save others with their firearm, one cannot murder people.
And numerous forms of protest too. Anything that gains traction is then declared a "riot" or "illegal assembly" and dealt with harshly.
None of these 2A supporters seem to care that you need a permit to protest or register to vote, but ask for people to get even the most basic of training before purchasing an object specifically designed to kill people and suddenly its "but muh rights!"
it’s okay to sell murder weapons to people who are obviously going to commit murder
Planning to murder someone is not only illegal but also a felony, which bars gun ownership. If we have evidence someone is going to commit murder, arrest, charge, and convict them.
Should we allow overweight, insecure men with a long history of red flags to buy hand grenades, land mines and machine guns?
Some people with NRA induced brain damage will of course say yes but the reality is that we've already decided that there are weapon that are too dangerous to indiscriminately hand out.
And what do you know? We're able to keep them out of the hands of domestic terrorists just fine.
Ethically? If they haven't be convicted in a court of law, yes, we should. Otherwise you're denying them due process. Also, red flag laws make getting help effectively illegal.
You're in for a rude awakening if you believe that only GOP and Nazis own guns. There's a reason Reddit has a liberal gun owners sub. Lefties just tend to be less vocal about it.