That type of sentiment is naive and minimizes the influence the international community has on many people including the pols. If the UN announced that the US had to give up their guns just who do you think, in percentages and basic demography, would rise up to stop it?
A small group maybe 15% or so would really fight it. 55% would think it cool, and 30% would harp it is wrong while complying.
With odds like that I should go pick out my urn...
I am of the belief that we, as American's, feel like it may be right to give away our liberty and freedom but if anyone else tries to take it you had better pack a lunch.
That is what I have come to believe from others actions, not what I endorse/teach/think. We have an obligation as stewards of the constitution to allow all those who come after us the same benefit we enjoyed by the efforts of those who came before us.
It is only realistic to discern between what you have, what you want and what you need. The general public has been neutered and taught that all these "noble" thoughts in the constitution somehow exist independent of each other and it is like a smorgasbord where you take only what you want. But the constitution is really like a recipe, and for want of even a small ingredient makes the whole effort fail.
Just because the nut next door thinks they were born with some innate ability to decide, with Solomon like wisdom, issues correctly by taking 2 seconds to access the left side of their brain has been, is and will remain being BS.
Every drop of ink on the constitution was purchased with thousands and thousands of buckets of blood. A rich enough price to warrant it being saved. Thousands and thousands too rich to give away.
The silence you believe you hear may not be apathy, but the lull before the storm...