“I should have asked them if they were aware that Section 1 of the 14th Amendment prohibits the states from abridging constitutionally enumerated rights. Likely not.”
You mean like they’re currently abridging the 2nd Amendment? Mark Levin says we’ve entered a “post-Constitutional” period. Don’t bet on any tentacle of the gov’t to stand up for your rights.
”Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)