Of course they can make a statement that makes it sound reasonable and defensible but look at the legislation they push. At the end of the day my right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED and words like those leave a heck of a lot of space to infringe on my right to keep, let alone bear, said arms. Look at the "red flag laws" the DNC has been supporting in the past couple years. After Heller made handguns untouchable they were trying to go after rifles which are basically a rounding error as far as crime and violence goes. The DNC is hellbent on attacking the ability of citizens to keep and bear arms the way the RNC is hellbent on making abortions hard to get (I specifically chose this comparison because both of these positions are an asinine invasion of people's private business).

If you want to play the weasel word game my driveway has five "tools of mass murder" in it and Tractor Supply will happily sell me 40lb bags of oxidizers to accessorize them with.