Talking Points

Because their real aim—an outright ban on all civilian use of handguns and most rifles—would require a repeal of the Second Amendment. They can’t or won’t call for such a repeal because, for all their brandishing of opinion polls and claims to speak for the majority, they stand no chance of accomplishing it. It’s not impossible to repeal an amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, was repealed by the Twenty-First in 1933. [More]

Repeal would not eliminate the right. Even the hopelessly "Establishment" Supreme Court has acknowledged:

This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

I'd like to think if they're going to invite debate that such distinctions would be fully grokked.

And speaking from experience: Nobody's minds are changed, and the only ones getting deep enough into the weeds to do more than peruse a couple slanted headlines have already picked their sides.