As a card carrying member of BOTH the ACLU AND the NRA, I look at it this way...
Me too.
I think that the rights in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution work together. The NRA has been delirously happy to support politicians who were busy shredding privacy and due priocess rights.
Now that the government has been given the power - by the NRA funded politicans - to go to any gun store and ask for lists of purchases any time w/o even the slightest scrutiny by a judge, who do you think will be the targets of "national security letters" when the anti-gun folks are in power? And if your buddy at the gun shop give you a heads up, he goes to jail.
Hope you've never checked any gun books out of the library - politicans who go massive donations from NRA decided that it would be a good idea to let the feds have access to those records. You can thank folks who focus on the RKBA as an exclusive right for those "national security letters."
I forgot, we're guaranteed that those letters will only be used against someon e with "Mohammed" as first name, or "ibn" somewhere in their name.
Every time we pass a law - assured that it will only be used against bad guys - it ends up being used against anyone the government wants to use it aaginst. Remember RICO was only supposed to be used against "mafia bosses". Now, the only people it's not used aganist is mafia bosses!
The authors of the Bill of Rights got it correct - the rights are all interlinked. Without right to due process, without rights against unlawful searches, what value is the right to keep and bear arms?
Mike