How desperate do you have to be to submit that the Founders idea of "bearing arms" didn't include the act of carrying them? Do you think they intended for everyone to wait at home for someone who was authorized to "carry" it for them to whereever it was to be used, and then given back before they could move from that spot?
Apparently, when you have no other argument, argue the definition of the word “is”...
I never said that. I said "to bear" means something different than "to carry". And if Judge Ginsburg has an opinion on the definition of "to carry" it does not mean that opinion applies to "to bear".
"To make this view of the case still more clear, we may remark that the phrase, "bear arms," is used in the Kentucky constitution as well as in our own, and implies, as has already been suggested, their military use. A man in the pursuit of deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his rifle every day for forty years, and yet it would never be said of him that he had borne arms."
-- Aymette v. State, 2 Humphreys 154 (Tenn. 1840)