 Go to the Democrats? So in 2016, Democrats erased the Second Amendment from their platform, reverting to the approach they took in 2000 and earlier. The 2016 platform mentioned the rights of responsible gun owners, but said nothing about the extent of those rights or the legal basis for them. The 2020 platform likewise did not mention the Second Amendment. It did not even mention the rights of responsible gun owners, but it did include two paragraphs of gun control proposals aimed at, quote, ending the epidemic of gun violence.