Our founding fathers had just fought a war against one of the most well equipped and best armies in the world, when they penned the second amendment they intended for the people of our country to be as well equipped as any military or police force that they may need to rise up against, Every time a new law is enacted is infringes on the second amendment and yet does nothing to reduce "people violence"...yes people violence as there is no such thing as gun violence, a gun is an inanimate object.
Someone up the line mentioned how we now treat criminals and the mentally ill and that is the biggest problem, we do not treat criminals as criminals anymore, we no longer have prisons for penal(penalty) we have correctional facilities where the inmates have more rights and privileges than the citizens who pay the taxes to run them, we no longer have mental institutions to house those that obviously can not take care of themselves, .
Firearms laws punish law abiding people and not the actual criminals, we see that time and time again.
As for executive actions and executive orders, neither one are laws and laws can only be passed by either the state or federal legislature
I live in a state that makes me pay for a background check, makes me pay for fingerprinting, makes me pay taxes on the sale of both a firearm and ammunition,...basically I am paying fees and taxes on a right , imagine if there were fees and taxes on any other right...say for instance voting or free speech.
As far as the slipper slope...we have alread slid way down that slope, it started with the NFA and proigressed from there, currently in my state a BB or Pellet rifle requires a firearms ID card and a BB or Pellet pistol requires a Pistol permit, Firearms I owned my whole life became unlawful for me to own when my state banned assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
Ironically my state made it legal for illegal aliens to get a drivers license.
Mass casualty even no firearm required: On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others
When only the government has firearms then there will be no freedom or liberty