None of this really has anything to do with an individual right to bear arms. Notice how you had to shift to sovereign states being armed to try to make something out of this. The thing is just bumper-sticker 2A fandom expression. It's fine as that, but it it isn't a serious argument about anything and, outside of 2A fandom, nobody thinks it is, whatever their views on gun ownership rights are.

Just like we don't use 'I brake for whales' or this old chestnut:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

As a basis for any real discussion of environmental policy.