Todays gun rampage (or maybe rampages) will no doubt start yet another sterile round of hand-ringing about the obviously out-of-control gun culture, how there's nothing that can really be done to curb the violence, let's not politicize this until the next shooting, etc. However, we have a legal framework called the Patriot Act that has already cut through legal and constitutional protections of other beloved rights and traditions (free speech, privacy, the right to due process, etc.). The First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments are now shredded remnants of what they once were; why not add the Second Amendment to the bag?
And we have just the lawyer who is highly experienced in making the clearly unconstitutional constitutional, reasonable, and necessary.
If John Yoo can find the legal loopholes and slippery interpretations to make torture into "enhanced interrogation", he should have little trouble in demonstrating all sorts of legal precedents and clauses that the 2nd Amendment really has nothing to do with owning weapons and our government has the Patriotic Duty to keep guns out of the hands of anyone but active duty soldiers and police. Prof. Yoo has had a bit of a problem in the past when he defenestrated the 5th Amendment, but he could redeem himself by doing the same to the 2nd.