As believers in reason it is easy for liberals to lose touch with reality by believing that morality is merely a subjective opinion of what is or is not moral. Those liberals infected with this disease can't comprehend the understanding of our forefathers who understood via enlightenment that morality is inherent and inalienable to the human species and that it is human nature itself that determines morality.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
The founding fathers understood well what Safety and Happiness demand as having a primary emphasis on self preservation that demands the ability to self defend.
Democratic fascists, liberals empty of foundational moral beliefs, will gladly take your right of to defend yourself in favor of their fear that you are so equipped. Having surrendered that intention for themselves in favor of a police state, they demand you also surrender the right to bear weapons. But any and all who understand that self preservation is a billion year old instinct will preserve for him or herself the right to such defense.
Can gun regulation be rational. It can, but that isn't what liberals in general or conservatives in many cases aim for.
Thus we are divided into those who want to take all guns and those who want absolutely unlimited access to any weapon anytime. The war of the brain dead.