GD right it does.
And I wonder how many of those polled would know that the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution is there to protect individual rights against government infringement?
Just because these folks don’t know this does not mean it is not true.
Therefore the 2A is, by definition, protecting individual rights.
Many soldiers were given their "militia supply" guns "as gifts" (a sort of pay) after the revolutionary war ended. I have a copy of a letter (GWashington I believe) and it is very explicit.
Had it been that only militias were to have arms...they would have been returned to the "militia supply".
No it doesn’t. It just enumerates that right. The right itself is inalienable. The government cannot grant it or take it away.