Are you for or against the 2nd Amendment??

[jmg257]

114. True - it is. And so is the Constitution, which refers to very specific Militias.

"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;"

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."


That would be these entities:
"...but every State shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia..."

Later confirmed by this:
The Militia Act of 1792, Passed May 8, 1792, providing federal standards for the organization of the Militia.

An ACT more effectually to provide for the National Defence, by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States.

I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, by the Captain or Commanding Officer of the company, within whose bounds such citizen shall reside,..."


So you are right, it doesn't matter what words came before or after, only what The Militia meant in the Constitution. Which are sanctioned and regulated State entities. {i.e. The people had to enroll in THE militia, they were not 1 on their own.}