States rights?! So you say stars have rights to abridge and infringe upon you constitutional rights? Oh silly me, let’s have 50 states of different laws for national constitutional rights. Bet you don’t travel state to state so do not care. Try traveling to NY, CA, IL and see how your rights work. Get over your anti-federal government bias and get real about having meaningful rights that are not dependent upon state, county, and city lines.
So you’d rather have a watered down, restrictive, useless “National” concealed carry bill, for what, when you travel through New York? No, thank you. I live in a state that has strong gun laws and borders other states that have good gun laws...again, don’t like where you live? Elect other reps or move...don’t water down my state’s law. And the last time I checked, the 10th amendment is a meaningful right.
Actually, this was originally the case. The Bill of Rights applied to the federal government and not to the states. Individual states were free to have official state churches and everything. The application of the BOR to the states was the work of the ACLU and other groups, though ironically some conservatives support this for the Second Amendment.