Great Insight, Great Quote: Coburn vs Sotomayor

Perhaps somewhat overlooked in the mainstream media recently was the exchange between Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

 

Coburn asks:

 

I'm having trouble understanding how we got to a point where a right to privacy, which is not explicitly spelled out but is spelled out to some degree in the Fourth Amendment, which has settled law and is fixed, and something such as the Second Amendment, which is spelled out in the Constitution, is not settled law and settled fixed.

I don't want you to answer that specifically. What I would like to hear you say is, how did we get there? How did we get to the point where something that's spelled out in our Constitution and guaranteed to us, but something that isn't spelled out specifically in our Constitution is?

Her answer is not included here, I'm not sure I know specifically what she said.  The important thing is the nature of the question, and how did we get here from there?