“Our right to bear arms exists and is constitutionally protected with or without the 2nd Amendment.”
So we think. People in Canada and the UK never saw a need for a 1st Amendment - and now it’s too late. Say the wrong thing about the ‘sensitive’ group, and you’re fined, fired, or jailed.
I know what you’re saying about pre-emption - but that’s a joke anyway...just having Social Security shows that.
Totalitarian states have great "Bills of Rights". Why? Because totalitarian and socialist states are based on the flawed idea that your rights are granted by man and his government and if they can give you your rights they can take them away.
Not so in America. The stating point here is with the individual and his God-given rights, SOME of which are WILLINGLY given up to have a central government. In America's case, the people delegated certain limited powers to the feds enumerated in U.S. Constitution.
In America WE the PEOPLE give the government their rights, not the other way around. The feds ONLY legitimate power are those delegated by the people and enumerated in the Constitution. All other rights and power belong to the states and the people.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights [of the U.S. Government], shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.Article [IX] (Amendment 9 – Unenumerated Rights)
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.Article [X] (Amendment 10 – Reserved Powers)
America is TRULY exceptional, because our our country is based on the truth that our rights derive from God as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
People in Canada and the UK don't have a Declaration of Independence that declares that certain individual rights are INALIENABLE and God-given, among them Life Liberty, and Pursuits of Happiness free from government interference. THAT is the MAIN presumption of the Constitution.
The first ten amendments were added because the anti-federalists believed that government would ignore its constitutional limitations and the presumption of individual rights. They weren't wrong. But they are not a grant of powers, only a reminder of the feds limitations.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.Article [II] (Amendment 2 – Bearing Arms).
IE, the government is not permitted to infringe on those God -given individual rights that are not enumerated as a delegated power to the feds. In this case, since the Constitution does not enumerate a specific power to the feds to regulate gun ownership, then the feds have no legitimate power to regulate gun ownership.
Now it is up to us to uphold the reinstate the Constitution as the Supreme law of the Land. MAGA by RESTORING OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.