On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:32:24 -0700, jim beam wrote:

On 05/21/2013 11:34 AM, Oren wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 18:01:17 -0700, jim beam wrote:

further thoughts:

1. i don't see why states should get to make their own restrictions to a
federal constitutional right.

You are familiar that when the 2nd Amendment was written it was
derived from local laws of states?


the bill of rights could have been derived from the laws of planet
vulcan for all that matters - what matters is that the bill of rights
are universal to a free citizenry, not subjects of individual fiefdoms.

Just to expand on that a bit, these rights aren't provided by the
Constitution, rather by nature. The Government didn't "give" these
rights so does not have the authority to take them away.