[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Article 1 Section 8.:

The Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries . . .

As

Amendment 9:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

makes plain, the Second Amendment is to be understood only as a floor under our rights. The Framers did not specifically envision all the inventions which lay in the future; no one could. But they trusted progress - they were real progressives - and the default meaning of their system is that it takes a constitutional amendment - in accordance with Article V - to make individual use of an invention extraconstitutional.

[yarddog]

Also I don’t think any of the 10 Bill Of Rights can be legally repealed. The states refused to ratify the Constitution without a bill of rights. That means that the entire Constitution would have to be replaced before any of the BOR could be replaced.