[ClearCase_guy]

The right of individuals to keep and bear arms may have some validity on the federal level, but states have a right to regulate and ban firearm ownership among the people, says California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

Isn't that priceless? Let's shift it around:

The right of individuals to follow their own religion may have some validity on the federal level, but states have a right to manadate which church the people may attend.

The ACLU will go for that, right?

[Ditto]

The right of individuals to follow their own religion may have some validity on the federal level, but states have a right to manadate which church the people may attend.

How about abortion? Does a state have the right now to ban it and Roe v Wade means nothing? Or how about slavery. There is a constitutiional amendedment prohibiting it, but does this yahoo think that states can simply ignore that prohibition?