Originally Posted by dksuddeth

I can't get around the very circular thinking you have. Please explain your logic with this interpretation considering that the founders and framers, having a very healthy fear of a central government and standing army, would bother to declare the RIGHT for standing armies to keep and bear arms and put that right in the bill of rights, a very specific set of rights that was a concession to the anti-federalists to ensure that those rights could not be infringed upon by the government.