“Gun Rights are NOT A FEDERAL ISSUE. Gun rights are a STATES’ ISSUE!!!”
In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the Supreme Court clarified that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated the Second Amendment against state and local governments.
Gun rights are rights. Period.
If you give the feds the power to enforce the first 8 amendments against the states, you give them sweeping powers over the states never contemplated by the Founders or the Ratifiers. The counterfeit incorporation doctrine has been tried and found wanting having been rejected by the Supreme Court in the Slaughterhouse Cases just after the 14th Amendment was ratified.
The Left has stolen and warped the Constitution as it has everything else in America. Around 1900, the Supreme basically abandoned the Constitution as the basis for much of their decisions. That is why we’re in the mess we are today.
The first eight amendments are prohibitions aimed directly at the feds and nowhere else but as with everything else, the Left has turned those prohibition against the feds into power the feds can use against us and the states. Astonishing but sadly true.