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Wait, I thought it was pretty much conservative dogma that constitutional rights only applied to the individual as it relates to federal law, not state law.
And we see once again that you either have a completely misinformed, unrealistically stereotyped version of Conservatism in your head or you're just being intentionally dense.
Conservative dogma states that constitutional rights apply to the individual and can not be infringed upon by the state of the federal government. Yes, the federal government can't ban guns, neither should a state, because its garaunteed in the 2nd amendment. The Federal Government shouldn't put a law in place criminalizing complaining about the president, nor should the states do such for criticizing governors as its protected under the 1st amendment.
Conservative dogma has issue when the federal government legislates or rules on matters that are not innumerated within the Constitution and as such belong to the STATES, not the federal government.