"Keep" or "bear"....which is most important in RKBA?

[garryc]

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Congress could not enumerate all the inherant rights of a free man. Those natural rights are far to long to attempt to enumerate

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

The question becomes, does the state have a right to regulate arms in the hands of the people? I'd say not because personal arms have always been the right, and one of the symbols, of a freeman.

14th. Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The founding fathers saw personal arms as a key factor in liberty. The 14th recognizes that all factors of liberty must remain in tact state to state.