Ugh…:

In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.

The city defended as constitutional its long-standing ban on handguns, a law that some gun opponents have advocated elsewhere. Civil liberties groups and pro-gun organizations say the ban in unconstitutional.

At issue in the case before a federal appeals court is whether the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” applies to all people or only to “a well regulated militia.” The Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights but the Supreme Court has never settled the issue.

If the dispute makes it to the high court, it would be the first case in nearly 70 years to address the amendment’s scope. The court disappointed gun owner groups in 2003 when it refused to take up a challenge to California’s ban on assault weapons. (emphasis mine)

1) At the time the 2nd Amendment was written, the term “well regulated” was a synonym of “well prepared”, NOT the current interpretation by statists as “somehow controlled by government”.

2) The militia was defined already back in 1792 as consisting of all able-bodied (free) men between the ages of 17 & 45 that had a firearm.  This has since been expanded, not reduced.

3) For good measure, look at the text of the 2nd Amendment again:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

The sentence is clearly in the form of “Since X, then Y”.  For example: “A tortilla being necessary to make a burrito, it is dumb to offer to make someone a burrito if you don’t have tortillas or the skill & ingredients to make one”.  You can transpose the statements and the meaning would not change.  Observe: “It is dumb to offer to make someone a burrito if you don’t have tortillas or the skill & ingredients to make one, a tortilla being necessary to make a burrito”.

This attempt at disarming people yet again is so pathetic it doesn’t even warrant a snarky “nice try”.  Away with ye!