A privilege card or license requirement or some bogus fee, is simply a TAX.. No privilege card or license or some bogus fee, should be required to exercise a natural right. They can call it what ever they like, if it looks like a tax, and takes money out of our pocket like a tax, than clearly it is nothing but a TAX..
Take a close look at Murdock v Pa (1943). While this is a 1st amendment case, the justices articulated some very important words regarding rights, all rights..
To wit, If an exercising of a right can be taxed, the government is capable of making it prohibitively expensive and could be done/exercised only by the wealthy.
Therefore, fees, costs of permits, licensing costs, etc, could become only affordable by the wealthy. (emphasis mine).
" Certain fundamental human rights have prerogative".. Murdock v PA. And finally and most important. " States do not have the power to license or tax, a right guaranteed to the people". Again Murdock...
We need look outside the prism of the 2nd amendment and we need to start incorporating the language of each amendment so that they each support one another.
When Jefferson said, " bind down the public officials with the chains of the Constitution".. He meant the whole constitution, not simply one amendment.
Each individual amendment supports the whole document.
" We must never forget that it is a Constitution, A single rational document as opposed to a pile of unconnected clauses that we are expounding" Justice Marshall.
We must connect each amendment, each clause, into a simple rational document..
My .02
Regards
CCJ