I believe in state’s rights. I reject reciprocity. I am in favor of states (but not the federal government) having the power to reduce its citizen’s access to guns.
I think those who agree with the second amendment and the tenth amendment should agree with me. I reject “incorporation” as legal hocus pocus.
I believe in States Rights too, unless they violate the U.S. Constitution.
The operative Phrase from the Second Amendment, “Shall Not Be Infringed”. That applies to ALL the States.
So, individual states and their cities should get to interpret our Constitutional rights?!
“I am in favor of states (but not the federal government) having the power to reduce its citizen’s access to guns.”
Agree completely.
It is entirely consistent with a conservative understanding of federalism.
As things are now, the federal leviathan through the Democratic party (and complicity of the GOP establishment) is imposing its radical leftist agenda on all of America through federal judges.
For example, I want to live in my state where my fellow citizens and I decide how we live our lives—not a couple of radical lesbians and their black-robed buddies in Washington DC, or gun-hating lefties in California.
If my neighbors next door in Chicagoland want to live, uh, safely in their “gunfree zone” shooting gallery ... well, that’s their prerogative as well.
In these recent times in which an executive legislates after admitting lacking that power, and violence is done to the English language as a matter of course, saying something “violates the Constitution” allows any infringement and denial of natural rights.
Federalism was their idea, of those wanting a strong central government. We will live with it, but so will they.