[robertpaulsen]

"But why isn’t it perfectly plausible, indeed reasonable, to assume that since the framers knew that the way militias were destroyed by tyrants in the past was not by passing a law against militias, but by taking away the people’s weapons — that was the way militias were destroyed.”

I agree. The second amendment was written to protect the right to keep and bear arms of those individuals who ARE part of a well regulated Militia from federal infringement. The Militia remains intact.

[Triple]

Wow - You previously claimed that the second amendment protected a “State Militia.”

Further - Scalia supports the view that individuals outside the militia have a right to arms “the people’s weapons” - something you also contested.

Your inconsistency and mental gymnastics are amusing.