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The Founders had more important things to worry about than junior high school grammar. And 18th century grammatical practices were more variable than they are now -- there was no national core curriculum.
Read some of the writings from the time.
Kennedy and Humphrey were paraphrasing the language of the Second Amendment; their statements have the same basic ambiguity as the Amendment itself.
As with the Founders, he was quite literate. If he had meant 'individual' he would have said so. As it is, the most that can be said is that he endorses the right of citizens to bear arms when they are enrolled in the National Guard ('a well regulated militia').
Also note that there is nothing there about -owning- firearms; just...
the 'tenther' argument could be used to dismiss the rest of the Federal and State Constitutions beyond their literal and original meaning, which become irrelevant as circumstances change with time. It limits the national government to only those powers stated in the Constitution.
The amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
It does nothing...
that you'd say that?
The only people who believe in Communism are latter day McCarthyites.
Even the Russians and Chinese don't believe in Communism any more.
If you know any in Minnesota, they must be over 80 by now.
Of course, you may be referring to anyone to the Left of Ghengis Khan, rather than people who actually identify themselves as Communists.
see Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/dickact.asp
What the Act did was set up the National Guard as the Constitutional equivalent of the Militia.
And it's obviously not illegal if good Amurican patriots do it.
It boils down to 'the rule of law, not men (or guns)'.
the ballot box is exactly what some of these people fear; a perversion of 'the tyranny of the majority'.
the militia ARE the people.