“It also grounded the right in a far less textually apparent “right of self-defense.”

There is a wonderful case to be made that there is a fundamental “right to self-defense.” It is clearly an emanation of a penumbra found within the underlying ideas making up the Constitution.

Put differently, it would seem that if you believe Roe rests on a logical continuation of unexpressed rights, you cannot dispute that there is a similar right to self-defense. And that would, given the express language of the Constitution, mean the right to own guns for self-defense much as the right to privacy protects the right to an abortion.

Of course, that irony works both ways. One cannot make the argument for a fundamental, if unexpressed, right to guns and self-defense without admitting a similarly legitimate argument for abortion rights.