[mrsmith]

The federalists at the Virginia Ratification Convention certainly didn't reply to Mason and Henry that the new government would arm the militia from an implied ( or even penumbral) "responsibility".

Marshall:" If Congress neglect our militia, we can arm them ourselves. Cannot Virginia import arms? Cannot she put them into the hands of her militia-men?"

[tacticalogic]

I still maintain that you cannot neglect what is not your responsibility. and I don't believe, and don't think the framers of the Constitution and BOR believed in power without responsibility.