"Cool. What's your source (or sources)? Because I don't normally recognize someone's "feelings" or "emotions" as an authority on the limits of government."
Eugene Vokloh's writings on many legal topics, including the second amendment, are very illuminating. He is a professor of law at UCLA, and a respected scholar who has written many law review articles on Constitutional Law.
Of incorporation, he writes, "[T]the Second Amendment claim to Fourteenth Amendment protection is historically stronger than any other federal right save speech and jury trial."
You can go to his webpage, link here: http://www1.law.ucla.edu/~volokh/ and see his sources for this assertion.
The Second *is* an individual right, just like the rest of the Bill of Rights. The phrase "the people" doesn't mean anything different in that amendment than it does in any other, gun grabber arguments to the contrary notwithstanding. We really don't need the Supremes to rule on the issue; with 200 million plus firearms out there, we can secure our own rights.
There you go. That's much more efficient than that messy old "voting" thing.
"The Second *is* an individual right, just like the rest of the Bill of Rights."
That may very well be true. But that argument is best for another day. My point was, as confirmed by you and now by Eugene Vokloh, that "the Second Amendment, whatever it may mean, operates to restrict only the power of the federal government."