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then will we be "in" for the same identical fate as the U.K.?
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QK - I think and hope the big distinction here is ... ''right'' vs ''privelage''.
The latter can be withdrawn in the blink of an eye ... the former - tho it can be eroded (and is being) would IMO require the most heinous of changes to the constitution to abruptly nullify ... such that there would probably be serious protest and unrest.
In the present climate I'd suspect the closest things might get to it would be following martial law - whilst POTUS had extremes of power. There again, whilst as you say the shooting fraternity is hardly a majority - it does have a voice way bigger and louder than UK ever had. Just look at gun ownership on a simple ''one in the house'' aspect.
Complacency tho is something we cannot have - even whilst the frog in the pot is the current name of the game - there is need to be ''on the case'' all the time. And to answer your main question - no, I cannot see a ''tour de force'' type situation like happened in UK.
We do, and have to keep reminding the anti's, that control of the vast and safe majority is no way to effect control on the minority of criminal bent - concentrate on those for sure but leave everyone else the hell alone!!