This is an example of just how uneducated not only the general public is about the importance of our Constitution but also those in Congress and Senate who are supposed to swear to uphold it for us. They clearly do not understand the core significance of our Constitution deciding that they are more important and can change or restrict the Constitution by nibbling at the edge or denying permission to exercise our rights whole cloth. While each State can flaunt its personality in a myriad of ways, they all are bound by the Constitution which must be equally shared between all legal citizens.
I have a challenge for someone who thinks they are good writers/researchers.
There's a Pulitzer out there for the writer who could compare the severe restrictions on the 2nd amendment in our current time being inflicted on its citizens by the handful of rogue states as the same as those states who insisted on preserving slavery before the civil war. I'm not being funny here. Yes, the civil war was fought for other reasons too but slavery and the ability of some rogue states to insist they keep their slaves was enough to throw our country into a civil war. Imagine, just for a moment, that California, NY, CT, MA, RI, DC, IL, et al decided that they were never going to allow the 2a to exist in their states. What would the administration do? How 'bout if they also begin to restrict the 1st amendment, too? Here in CT no one can speak at any college without being physically attacked by administrators running up to a podium and stealing their notes! When is this going to stop? There is a brewing storm on the horizon where a minority of states have decided, unilaterally, that they know better and are going to simply redact that 1st and 2nd amendment, period. They may even leave it in place but hamstring it so severely as to make it unusable. Now what?
It's my contention that one could clearly see the day when the Federal Government ordered/demanded that a rogue state reinstate the 2nd amendment immediately. How would they enforce that order, however? In a reverse situation, we've all read "Molon Labe" and when Wyoming decided that they were no longer going to restrict full-auto arms, the Feds were prohibited from crossing their border held off by the state's local National Guard. Are we going to see a day when this behavior comes to fruition with the Feds ordering that the Constitution be restored? Or, are we destined to be separated by these rogue states as we travel, concerned about being denied our rights to free travel over borders?
This surely is a brave new world.