To my way of thinking, there are VERY few examples of "responsible" gun owners.

[Ghost in the Machine]

102. Parse all you want to, but you just lost your own argument by acknowledging this....

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. On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was adopted, having been ratified by three-fourths of the states.

First off, we didn't have a Standing Army, during Peacetime, until the U.S. Military was created by Congress on Sept. 29th, 1789. The "Colonial Army", which fought in the Revolutionary War, was never an "Official Army of The United States".... http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_army_1.html

As for the "Capital 'P'", there's this:

There are two principle versions of the Second Amendment: one version was passed by Congress, while the other is found in the copies distributed to each individual state and later ratified by them


As passed by the Congress: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.{emphasis mine}

As ratified by the States: 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.

http://constitution.laws.com/2nd-amendment

Then the debate on the 2nd Amendnent by The Federalists & Anti-Federalists:

The onset of war does not always allow time to raise and train an army, and the Revolutionary War showed that militia forces could not be relied on for national defense. The Constitutional Convention therefore decided that the federal government should have almost unfettered authority to establish peacetime standing armies and to regulate the militia.

This massive shift of power from the states to the federal government generated one of the chief objections to the proposed Constitution. Anti-Federalists argued that the proposed Constitution would take from the states their principal means of defense against federal usurpation. The Federalists responded that fears of federal oppression were overblown, in part because the American people were armed and would be almost impossible to subdue through military force.

Implicit in the debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists were two shared assumptions. First, that the proposed new Constitution gave the federal government almost total legal authority over the army and militia. Second, that the federal government should not have any authority at all to disarm the citizenry. They disagreed only about whether an armed populace could adequately deter federal oppression.

The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power of the federal government, which would have required substantial changes in the original Constitution. Yet the Amendment was easily accepted because of widespread agreement that the federal government should not have the power to infringe the right of the people to keep and bear arms, any more than it should have the power to abridge the freedom of speech or prohibit the free exercise of religion {All emphasis mine}

http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/

As for "It goes to the Supremes": IF you read the link right above this, you will be highly disappointed when your read this part:

Until recently, the judiciary treated the Second Amendment almost as a dead letter. In District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), however, the Supreme Court invalidated a federal law that forbade nearly all civilians from possessing handguns in the nation’s capital. A 5–4 majority ruled that the language and history of the Second Amendment showed that it protects a private right of individuals to have arms for their own defense, not a right of the states to maintain a militia.

Quite frankly, speaking as a gun owner, I have been so disgusted with the actions of people lately that I have gotten rid of all of my guns except for 2... a 12 gauge pump shotgun, and a .22 cal Benjamin pump-up PELLET gun that I have had for well over 30 years. I am trying to sell the shotgun now, as I need new tires for my car... and need them WAYYY more than I do the shotgun.

Good luck in your crusade, though, you are going to need a lot of it...

Peace,

Ghost