[robertpaulsen]

"then the states can be legislatively forced by the congress into surrendering the protections in their own laws- as by the examples I gave earlier"

Save me from looking through 441 posts -- Which examples or what post?

Ken H and I have been going back and forth on this.

[mrsmith]

Back in 380.

The problem with Ken's question is that it's not reasonable to assume the court will both incorporate the 2nd without a RKBA and acknowledge the federal RKBA in an opinion. It will deny or weaken both.

So, even though incorporating the second without a state RKBA would not change anything- as Ken argues that is what we have now without incorporation- the denial of the federal right too would allow judicial and legislative restrictions to be forced upon the states.

The examples you and I cite would still be prevented by a federal RKBA- but there won't be one.