"When and if a leftist Democrat federal government issues orders for any federal government organ to seize citizen firearms, there WILL be war."
Chicago isn't federal, and thus doesn't fall into the category of rights violation I am referring to.
As to which side I'm on......it is the one that thinks any law-abiding citizen should be allowed to own and carry whatever weaponry he damned well pleases, anywhere he pleases...just as the original intent of the Second Amendment recognized.
As did the bills of rights of the individual states before the Constitution was promulgated(and yes, I have looked them all up and read them).
If I'm understanding correctly, the distinction SHOULD be moot.
The 14th Amendment is SUPPOSED to prevent the States from violating the Bill of Rights.
Sure, I "got it" the first time, and my response is: that's pure fantasy, unless you're talking about a city like Chicago which already seizes many thousands of illegal weapons each year and arrests their owners for possession.
But the Federal government is not going to seize normal weapons from law-abiding voters so long as the constitution is enforced.