"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Now, does it include a presumption of a pre-existing individual right?
That's one of the arguable points. If you check the original debates in
Congress over the Bill of Rights, you'll find NO MENTION whatever of any
other purpose for the 2nd Amendment except the right of the states to arm
and maintain their own militias.

One must consider that the right to bear arms was likely viewed the same way
as the right to breath air. Is breathing in the Constitution? Can you live
without doing so?

Wes