The more I read about 14th amendment the more I come to believe that the 14th wasn't to apply any amendment to the states.
As everyone on this board agrees, except tpaine, the BOR as written was only to apply to the federal government. I like it that way.
Liar, liar. Most Second Amendment proponents here on FR have already written anit-Second Amendment dimwits like you off as trolls.
Of course tinpot dictators like you like it that way. This means that those Rights have no weight and can be stripped by petty politicians and Judges at the State level. Clearly not the Founders intent on implementing the BoR to begin with.
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823
The more I read about 14th amendment the more I come to believe that the 14th wasn't to apply any amendment to the states.
That is exactly what everyone has been trying to tell you paulsen. ALL of our basic inalienable rights already applied to ALL levels of government. -- The 14th was needed to stop State infringements of our individual rights to life, liberty, or property.
As everyone on this board agrees, except tpaine, the BOR as written was only to apply to the federal government.
Nearly everyone on this board agrees that our RKBA's is inalienable, paulsen, You dont. You boast:
"I like it that way."
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Yep, paulsen you like the way our corrupted system works, no doubt because you make your living off some aspect of the corruption.
And everyone on this board can see that ~very~ clearly.