I don't see any way to rewrite it. If you assembled a convention, it would begin like this: Half of the people: We absolutely, positively must allow unrestrict

I don't see any way to rewrite it. If you assembled a convention, it would begin like this: Half of the people: We absolutely, positively must allow unrestricted gun ownership. The other half: I will absolutely, positively never vote for a Constitution that doesn't contain at least some way to restrict gun ownership. And then it's over. Maybe there's more shouting, but we're never going to get past that. There are plenty of other equally-intractable sticking points. But you might as well face this one head on and save yourself a lot of time. The only other alternative is one that starts "Let's give up completely on the idea of being one country." At which point everybody starts shouting about who owns what.