Thanks, Mick, for your cogent statement of your position. Wish everybody on the pro-gun side was as logical.

But I'd still have to say that the 2nd Amendment has clearly to do with the militia--and a "well-regulated" one at that. Does it not? Where is the "well-regulated militia" these days, if not the National Guard? There is clearly not a militia now made up of all able-bodied men over 16.