Its the difference between someone being a "2a person" vs just excercising their second amendment right. When I or the people I know hear "2a person" those are the people with two dozen guns, who log on to social media after every school shooting to fight any regulation, who join up to militias with a bunch of white supremacists, who argue for the reversal of the Machine gun ban and against any possible gun regulation.

I am just using the tools and rights the constitution affords me. If I exercise my first amendment people don't call me a 1A person. If everyone including the cops disarmed tomorrow, I wouldn't cry, I would rejoice.