[robertpaulsen]

I read your post #96. In it, you said, "The people means all the people even if they are not members of the militia."

I'm asking you if you really mean that. I'm asking you if "the people" means men, women and small children, citizens, non-citizens and foreign visitors, the Indian tribes, prisoners, the mentally ill, and the insane, illegal aliens, felons, and terrorists.

Is that what you're really saying?

[Publius Valerius]

I'm asking you if "the people" means men, women and small children, citizens, non-citizens and foreign visitors, the Indian tribes, prisoners, the mentally ill, and the insane, illegal aliens, felons, and terrorists.

Yes.

[Ravenstar]

“the people” means men, women - citizens. The extremes you bring up would be restricted by either not being citizens or due process of law would then deny them that right. Do you even have in your understanding that the militia is a subset of the people! It is not the whole set! You probably have no idea what a Venn Diagram is.

Ravenstar