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I support the second amendment and the right to bear arms.
However, I'm also aware that no right is an unlimited right, and just as it cannot be legal for someone to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, it should not be legal for people to have no limits whatsoever on the type of arms that they can own.
The NRA does not support the second amendment - they solely represent the interests of gun manufacturers.
It's perfectly legal to yell fire in a crowded theater.
You've never had a law class.
The tort would be the resultant injuries arising from your actions.
I may have used the classic "school room example", but the fact is that the supreme court has ruled on numerous cases stated that all rights are limited:
"the majority opinion, written by conservative bastion Justice Antonin Scalia, states: “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited…”. It is “…not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”"
The Supreme Court Ruling on the 2nd Amendment Did NOT Grant an Unlimited Right to Own Guns | Risk: Reason and Reality | Big Think
The principal that no right is unlimited is a very longstanding in our legal system, almost as old as America itself.
If you went to law school, you apparently missed something.