It's because people delusionally believe "laws" and "constitutions" protect their rights. They never have and never will. They simply *describe* your rights, much the way a "No trespassing" sign does. Rights are always fundamentally protected by shooting those who violate them. There are often a lot of interim steps of gradual escalation to avoid unnecessary violence (e.g. telling someone to GTFO is a better first step for trespassing than shooting them), but the implicit threat of the last step to resolve the violation is always there. In the case of commie shitholes like NY, NJ, and Cali, I'm astonished anyone is willing to live there given how overwhelmingly outnumbered they are by jackboots. The implicit last step is inherently suicidal with those odds, and hence unenforceable for 99% of people. And the other 1% have nothing to live for anyway, which makes rights rather moot.