Gun prohibitionists mistakenly predicate that controls appropriate to a privilege, driving, are appropriate to an inherent, irrevocable, and constitutionally protected right. While certain state and federal gun controls may be constitutional, gun prohibitions are clearly unconstitutional. Gun controls may not be so onerous as to regulate the right into meaningless, virtual nonexistence. The US Supreme Court has rejected such convoluted logic. The US Supreme Court has yet to use the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate many Bill of Rights protections against the states, the Second Amendment protections among them.
Prohibitionists take hypocritical refuge in a guns only interpretation of collective states' rights.
The supportive authorities referenced above are quite convincing of the inherent and irrevocable right to self-protection against criminals, crazies, and tyrants. These important civil rights matters will be discussed in detail in a forthcoming article.