Have another drink buddy it'll all be ok.

He isnt short though

They've already been doing that

Yes. It was considered a states' Rights issue until Incorporation. Most states included the right to bear in their Bill of Rights, but it was up to the individual states to be the primary guarantor of rights and they were able to decide what those rights were.

The interesting thing about individual state constitutions is how little they matter. State governments don't even pay lip service to them like the federal government does to the Constitution, and just get away with it because all the money is tied up fighting federal infringements.

You think that incorporation was unconstitutional? I think incorporation is broadly popular these days, but it's fricked up that the SCOTUS unilaterally decided to apply the Bill of Rights to the states instead of Congress drafting an amendment to do it as the authors of the first 10 Amendments and the 14th Amendment would have liked to do, yet were unable to do.

James Madison initially wanted the Bill of Rights to apply to the states (as he was initially a Federalist), but was unable to make that happen and later changed his mind, joining the Republican faction, believing that the States should have the right to govern themselves and decide which rights they would guarantee their citizens (which is why most states have a Bill of Rights based off of the federal Bill of Rights).

Yet again, the authors of the 14th Amendment wanted to incorporate the Bill of Rights. Yet, even after the Civil War, "States' Rights" sentiment was strong enough to prevent such language from being included in the 14th Amendment.

But then 60 years later, the SCOTUS just decided that they get to make the rules and the original meaning of the Constitution doesn't matter