The free press is failing (intentionally misleading?) everybody where discussions about our 2nd A. protections are concerned; the press is evidently as ignorant of the Constitution and its history as most people are. More specifically, regardless that no discussion about our 2nd A. protections is complete without mention of how the 2nd A. relates to the 14th Amendment, the referenced article makes no mention 14th Amendment (corrections welcome).
The reason for this is that John Bingham, the main author of Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment, included the 2nd A. when he read the first eight amendments as examples of constitutional statutes containing privileges and immunities that the 14th A. applied to the states. So there is no doubt in my mind that the 2nd and 14th Amendments protect the right to keep and bear arms from the federal and state governments as much as any other personal right protected by the Constitution's privileges and immunities.
See the 2nd A. in the middle column of the following page from the Congressional Globe, a precursor to the Congressional Record. The page is a part of one of Bingham's discussions about the 14th Amendment.
http://tinyurl.com/y3ne4nNote that the referenced page is dated for more than two years after the ratification of the 14th Amendment. So Bingham was evidently reassuring his colleagues about the scope and purpose of the ratified 14th Amendment.
Again, how can the free press protect our constitutional freedoms when the press doesn't know the Constitution and its history in the first place?
Thanks for the link.