[Cornpone]

"A lot of the "protective" actions the Federalist Papers suggested was basically nullified by the "equal protection" clause in the Fourteenth Amendment."

Without question you certainly know much more about the constitution than I do and I'm not attacking you. This is just an issue that makes my blood boil. In my mind the only guarantee of freedom is the people and the only way they can guarantee it is through the right to bear arms. However, I think there is a point that people can be pushed to where they just aren't going to sit around and listen to a Daniel Webster explain to them why they should smile when their freedoms have been taken away. Lincoln I think said it best, mess with the constitution and invite revolution.

[wagglebee]

The Bill of Rights simply defined rights bestowed upon us by God, therefore they should be defended by any means necessary.

Lincoln may have saved our Republic, but he massacred the Constitution.