Megan Romer’s defense of abolishing the Senate, ICE, and prisons is more than a policy wish-list; it’s a blueprint for concentrating power in the hands of whichever faction controls the remaining levers of government. The Senate’s equal-state representation is the last structural brake on coastal mega-cities dictating gun policy to rural and Southern states; remove it and the Electoral College’s firewall collapses with it. Likewise, eliminating ICE doesn’t just open borders—it removes the federal agency whose databases and joint task forces currently interdict firearms trafficking at ports of entry. And when prisons vanish, the same logic that emptied Rikers and San Francisco’s jails will be applied to federal firearms offenders, turning “restorative justice” into an early-release program for prohibited persons.

For the 2A community, the danger isn’t merely rhetorical. Every one of these proposals has already been prototyped at the state and local level: sanctuary jurisdictions ignoring ICE detainers, progressive DAs declining to prosecute straw purchasers, and “defund” budgets that gut ATF tracing units. Scale those experiments nationally and the result is a regulatory vacuum on one side of the ledger and a political monopoly on the other—exactly the conditions that historically precede registration, confiscation, and one-party rule. The right to keep and bear arms is only as durable as the constitutional architecture that protects it; dismantle that architecture and the Second Amendment becomes a parchment barrier against an administrative state that no longer needs legislative buy-in to act.