[JohnGalt]

Apparently, the Second Amendment is not that strong as the Supreme Court has allowed Federal regulation of firearms since Miller in the 1930s.

That's the point.

In the Old Republic, the Constitution did not recognize the (absurd and illegally ratified) position of the 14th Amendment which confuses so many people.

[Dead Corpse]

Absurd and illegally ratified? Are you another one of those ones that wants Ol' Nigger Jim back out plowing your north forty?

Was it unusual? Possibly. Having just fought a War over States Rights, an oxymoron as States have "powers" and not Rights, a mechanism needed to be put in place to ensure a baseline of Rights were protected and that they applied to everyone. Why else bother to have a Federal Government at all? This needed to be done because their were asshats that would strip us all over our basic human Rights at the State level if they couldn't do it at the Federal Level.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Neither is every State its own little dictatorship.