That's the problem with reading written messages, it's hard at times to place them in the context with which the writer intended them.
Were the Founders still alive they would find their scribblings misunderstood and coopted for ends they could not anticipate. Parse well, friends.
jack
No doubt, and they would be confused by those largely on the political left wanting to ban guns. Without the samples of quotes that I posted originally along with the mountain of evidence of others that exist in support of the 2nd amendment being an individual right, I could understand the potential for different interpretations. However, with all the evidence that I've mentioned, it provides a construction for the individual rights interpretation. As Constitutional scholar Stephen Halbrook put it, if there is any proof of the 2nd amendment ever being intended as a collective right by the founders of this nation, it is the world's best kept secret.
