“As with any other threat to the safety and well being of the public — and especially our children — the rights of individual gun owners (like myself) must be superseded by the need to protect the public at large.”
More accurately: Exercise of the rights of individual gun owners protects the public at large.
Following his line of reasoning though, abortion is a threat to the public at large, since it’s reducing the birthrate we need to sustain the country. So individual women’s rights need to be superseded to protect us from the threat of abortion.
Islamic terrorism is also a threat to the public at large, so individual muslims’ right to freedom of religion needs to be superseded to protect us from the threat of muslim terror.
He should agree with those positions too, right?