[joe fonebone]

you have done a good job of pettifogging the issue..

please state your position in clear English..

thank you

[rjsimmon]

My position is this:

The 2nd Amendment covers the usefulness of firearms to the leity known as the militia. George Mason correctly defined it:

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

Obfuscating 'arms' with 'ordnance' is outside of the scope of the 2A. While I would like to see ordnance included in the protected right, I do not believe it is there and attempting its inclusion may serve to degrade the argument. Just my opinion with this regard.

SCOTUS was quite wrong to declare that the militia is only the National Guard as this eliminates the gentry and limits the militia to only those specifically approved by a governmental body that always strays to tyranny. Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Mason and Paine would spit with anger to have seen this interpretation.

So, my point of contention was not petty, but fundamental. Arms belongs to every able bodied man. Ordnance, does not.