Yea we should have the right to carry across state lines but we should do it within the confines of the constitution which means the states should decide - not the federal government.
When you speak of an invasion of rights, this is one example so don't complain about Obama care or other things the feds are trying to do, either you are for states to decide or the feds controlling everything.
The states are largely sovereign, but when the states got together in Philadelphia and created the feral gummint, which then should have been called the federal government, I suppose, they removed certain things from the reach of any majority vote. Those things are listed in the Bill of Rights, imposed on themselves and each other through article 6, para 2, which states : "This constitution, and the laws and treaties that are passed hereunder, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the laws or constitution of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." I'm sure I messed up a word or two, but that's pretty dang close, and the meaning is the same. Now, we have further imposed individual rights on each other via the 14th amendment.
The bottom line is that our Founding Fathers
removed from government at all levels authority to decide whether or not individuals can own and carry the common weapons of the day, though this has always been understood to refer to small arms. The states do not get to prohibit gun ownership or the carry of guns. I'm not familiar with any restriction on the states to mandate HOW they might be carried, but no state may ban the carry of a firearm. Some states want them concealed, while others want them in the open.
We may automatically carry any small arm that has a military purpose. Any small arm a cop or soldier may carry, so may we. The day ray guns are invented and given to cops or soldiers, we get 'em, too. Any state that prohibits this is in clear violation of the supreme law of the land.
Don't agree? Well, substitute some other right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and see if you feel the same. How about freedom of speech? What if your state decided they didn't much care for that freedom of religion thing and were going to assign you a religion or outlaw yours? Would you be crying states' rights then? No, the Bill of Rights, written and ratified by the states themselves, carved out and enshrined our human rights and placed them beyond the vote of any majority in any state or states.
No state may prohibit the ownership or carry of any small arms.
Obama's Commie Care is not listed among any charter of liberties, as is the bearing of arms. It is, however, covered by the 10th amendment. Remember your civics classes? Our rights aren't limited to what's listed in the constitution, but the government's powers
ARE limited to only their enumerated powers. So the same argument of states rights and government powers doesn't apply. When I insist that all states obey the federal requirement (that they, themselves wrote and ratified) to not interfere with my bearing of arms, it doesn't conflict with my insistence that they not enact or obey the federal insistence to enact commie care, which they have no responsibility to do.
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You know the problem with bad cops? They make the other 5% look bad.
