Except what does the 82nd protect? There’s no little girl who wants to buy a AR15 and go target shooting. In your Little Rock example there were kids who just wanted to go to school & and a fat obnoxious governor preventing it! Good optics! Sympathy for kids none for the Gov! Here you have none of that! Better you say, ‘ OK Piedmont & I95 Virginians you want to live in a AR15-less (or similar society) ok! However the rest of the Virginians want to maintain their full 2nd Amendment rights! Its only fair that you let them go and decide their own destiny.’ That would play better in Peoria!
“... there were kids who just wanted to go to school & and a fat obnoxious governor preventing it! ...”
There are citizens who just want to exercise their Constitutional Rights - both State and Federal- and a fat obnoxious governor who occasionally likes to dress in blackface and KKK robes threatening to put them in jail for doing so.
A Right is a Right no matter if it’s a little black kid going to school or a middle aged white taxpayer who wants to protect his family.
I understand your point, though.