The issue is larger than guns. The issue is that if the liberals can nit pick at every word in a sentence until the normal meaning of the sentence is no longer universally understood, all of our constitution, laws and even traditions are going to be overturned.
For example, who would have thought that marriage had to be defined? Who thinks that even if we had a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as only between a man and a woman we would not be debating whether a man and a woman refers to actual physical sexual organs and not some broader meaning?
That actually leaves me optimistic regarding the Heller case. If the Supremes negate the 2nd because "the People" is some amorphous, ill-defined "collective" wherein no individual may sue to protect his or her RKBA, then the EXACT same reasoning can be applied to any of the other Amendments in which the words "the People" appear. The Court knows this, and it is plainly unacceptable. Even Alan Dershowitz has said that the 2nd MUST protect individual rights if the rest of the BOR is to mean anything.