If this arrogant imbecile wants to embrace original intent, he will find many things he won’t like. For example, the Bill of Rights was never meant to protect individuals from their own state governments. The Bill of Rights was intended to protect people and the states from the federal government. Only following the poorly written post Civil War amendments did leftwing judges dream up the incorporation doctrine wherein the entire Bill of Rights was applied to constrain the states. Ah, but not the entire Bill of Rights but only those rights that the liberal judges favored. Thus for decades the 2nd Amendment was not “incorporated” and even when it was, it was thought to be a second class right not deserving “strict scrutiny” of its encroachments like the rights they preferred.
But a conclusive answer to the contention that this amendment prohibits the legislation in question lies in the fact that the amendment is a limitation only upon the power of Congress and the national government, and not upon that of the state. [citation to Cruikshank omitted] ...It is undoubtedly true that all citizens capable of bearing arms constitute the reserved military force or reserve militia of the United States as well as of the states, and, in view of this prerogative of the general government, as well as of its general powers, the states cannot, even laying the constitutional provision in question [2nd amendnment] out of view, prohibit the people from keeping and bearing arms so as to deprive the United States of their rightful resource for maintaining the public security, and disable the people from performing their duty to the general government.