re: #2 Political Atheist

Yes I use what in my view is a modern definition that can work, dynamic enough to be contemporary, yet regulated for public safety.

It doesn’t work for me. It seems like a really awkward shoehorn so that an appeal to the original text to the 2nd amendment can be made, instead of admitting how much has changed since then.

I’d be happy to get into gun control, I intend to get into that next. But my context will be with the 2nd as now an individual right as settled law. With or without the militia. Not sure that’s best characterized as falling back. It’s important to acknowledge the powerful ruling whether one agrees or not.

It’s like you just ignored what I wrote. Never mind.