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This is simple: Keep your hands off my guns, quit picking on transgender people, and leave my porn alone.
Easy. I ought to be on the supreme court. Think of the payroll savings if you just fired all nine of those motherfuckers.
The ghost gun thing is particularly ridiculous. You've always had the right to make your own firearm, and for decades the BATF has said that if a receiver (or frame, or whatever) is only 80% complete, that it's legally not a firearm (yet). The reason it's an issue now is that it's finally easy enough for a regular person to make their own. Once you start regulating a block of metal--or in the case of New York, a 3D printer--as though it was a firearm, where does it realistically end? If I can pay $20,000 for a Haas 5 axis benchtop CNC mill, then a plan block of aluminum is not a 'gun' since I can easily mill it to be such.
Somewhere at the bottom of that slippery slope, I imagine.
There's always going to be a threshold where things that previously weren't problems, become problems. Imagine trying to argue that DUI laws shouldn't exist because when you have had one beer you're fine, but once you've had 20 beers now the police have a problem with it. How many beers is too many? We don't know since that's different for everyone- but we all agree at some point, it's too many.
You yourself pointed this out: when such weapons weren't easily available, they weren't really a problem. Now that they are easily available, they're a problem.
This is literally exactly how it works, though. There is a legal percentage threshold of blood alcohol content wherein it becomes illegal. The line there is drawn. And although where it is drawn is specific, it's not in the same place, on a state-by-state basis.
What they said is still valid, and the point they were making aligns with yours.
That point is, in our societies, the legally mandated limit of blood alcohol content. How many beers does it take to hit that limit? Without some specific knowledge of an individual, literally no one could say with any certainty. We could make generalities:
One beer over an hour, when drank with a moderately heavy meal.
But there's no way to say "This is too many beers!" Because it is entirely a per person situation. Hell, some people wouldn't blow over the limit and be so drunk they can't stand up.