[Mojave]

Your skill at discerning the framers' intent, contrary to their clearly written words, is amazing.

Backwards. You leftists want to insert an expression that was never made. As the Supreme Court noted in 19833:

"In compliance with a sentiment thus generally expressed, to quiet fears thus extensively entertained, amendments were proposed by the required majority in Congress and adopted by the States. These amendments contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the State governments."

[Mojave]

As the Supreme Court noted in 1833:

[VRWCmember]

Backwards. You leftists want to insert an expression that was never made.

It is the statists like yourself that want to insert an exception clause that reserves the power to the states to infringe a right of the people that is specifically enumerated as a right of the people.

But congratulations on being the first person ever to refer to me as a leftist, and for doing so on the basis that I read the words "shall not be infringed" to mean "shall not be infringed" rather than "shall not be infringed except at the discretion of the states".