My standing is the right to bear arms came about huindreds of years ago when the world was a very different place. Everything changes with the times I think these need to also. Not completly just a little revision. I hate the gun laws in Ca. We cant own an Ar-15 because its "scary" gun? Seriously?!? I had to sell alot of my guns to family members out of state so I didnt have to surrender them. I think the way they are going about it are very wrong.
<sarcasm>AR-15s are scary though and are entirely unneeded in today's society. I know the second amendment says people have an inalienable right to bear arms, but that is an antiquated idea from a very different time. These days we don't need to have guns because we have the police and we can trust that our government will always protect us.</sarcasm>
Inalienable means cannot be taken away from somebody. The right to self-defense is a great example of an inalienable right because people tend to not like getting punched in the face.
The right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure is also an inalienable right. Forming an imaginary entity (like say...San Francisco Police Department) and paying some random people some money and giving those people matching uniforms doesn't entitle those people to suddenly demand me to do anything for them. They can ask me my name and I can ignore them and continue on my way and they can go on their way and that is perfectly fine. The moment they seize my person they better be doing so for the common good. If I am seized and there isn't some reasonable understanding that I've committed a crime, then they are violating my inalienable right to be free from such a seizure.
How can you begin to argue that you are entitled to an AR-15 when you cannot stand behind one's right to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures? Police aren't some mystical entity who can do no wrong. Police are people and have no additional rights or capabilities beyond what you or I are capable of. Our legal system has deemed that police should be protected by qualified immunity because their job would subject them to innumerable civil lawsuits. That makes sense. But they cannot seize you just like I cannot approach you in public and seize you without reasonable suspicion that you have or are about to commit a crime.
Never forget that police are only 150 years old. The world still worked prior to 1850. Some may argue that it worked even better.