You are most certainly correct.
But I am without any faith in legal arguments these days and haven't the patience to debate issues about our so-called rights with opposition figures. "Shall not be infringed" is a perfectly clear statement which the Government ignores completely. Why? Because they can. It gets to be a very short conversation.
Other means of persuasion are necessary.
We live under a "Pretense-of-Law". The real thing is not coming back any time soon. It seems we have reverted to the condition where "the only rights we have are ones that we can enforce with what we can carry in two hands - while running".
A limited sense of humor is about all I have left. Hence the comments about wasting ammo.
“Because they can”
Those three words are the full status of the law and our status as “citizens” in America.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to peaceably assemble, to petition for the redress of grievances, freedom of the press, freedom to keep and bear arms, free and fair elections..
Which of these remains in the face of “because they can” today?
How much more fascism will it take before we realize we’ve recreated the Third Reich?