I think dog gone was going for the "incorporation" angle WRT the 2nd amendment. Namely there is a thought by some that if the supreme court doesn't make a ruling that incorporates an amendment to cover states or local governments, then it doesn't cover it.
Then there would be people like me, and probably you, who subscribe to the original intent philosophy, whereby if the founding fathers were smart enough to put it in the BOR as basic human rights, which means it can't be taken away from a free man by any other man or level of government. And it doesn't take 9 people in robes to 'grant' those rights to us by a ruling when we were born with those rights.
The problem with rudy is that he most certainly believes in the 'incorporation' approach for the 2nd amendment, but also wants to use the federal government to ban guns, so he doesn't give a crap about the 2nd amendment on a federal level either.
Yes I was, and like it or not, that's the current state of constitutional law in this country.
People can argue and insult people who don't agree, but that's just stupid. They want to believe that something is what it isn't.
I've never written a law or interpreted one from the bench. It's not my fault what the current constitutional law in this country is.