ORIGINAL: GMMAT
The one point that has not been dissected is the fact that gun ownership is only second behind freedom of speech when thought of in order of importance.
"I" think you're giving them too much credit (to bolster your argument) when you assign "order of importance" to the US Constitution's amendments. In this line of thinking.....it was more important for a man to be able to own a gun than it was for a black man to be considered a "man", at all. In fact..there was a post civil war inclusion to DENY black men their "right" to bear arms......for fear of them being able to protect themselves from the very men who sought to oppress them.
I think....if you asked a black American about the amendments to the US Constitution's"order of importance".....you might get a differing viepoint than the one you hold.
There are no amendments in the Bill of rights that discuss color at all or anything to which you infer. Those first 10 would have been the ones that were in a particular order for a reason (...although the 2nd should have been first
). Isn't really relative that other amendments were added at later times is it??