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¿Que? Cornelius!
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MY argument would be that the Second Amendment doesn't embody a fundamental right, and therefore not applicable to the States. Therefore each of the several states could decide for themselves but the Federal government would be bound by the Amendment. But that ship sailed long ago.
You and I are on exactly the same page. There's a very good reason why we aren't supposed to have any Federal policing powers, but of course we do.
The power of black-letter law meaning exactly what it actually says went away when the Supreme Court granted itself supreme power. Supreme in its name denotes supremacy over lesser courts, not the other branches that form it, and definately not over the words in the Constitution. They absolutely are subordinate to the other two branches and especially to the document that they are supposed to serve. The Feds are subordinate to the will of the States. None of the above is in practice any longer.
We gave away a little of our country when we decided to fight bootleggers after the ill-conceived concept of prohibition. We doubled down with the war on drugs and we killed the country with our fight on terrorism.. The terrorists won
All it takes to to get a free people to voluntarily give up their liberty is to construct a villain sufficiently evil to scare hem into accepting the safety and comfort of tyranny.
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