Regarding......
"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.""
1st thought......
I trust that the gentlemen whom we commonly refer to as the "founding fathers", took great pains to thoroughly debate and cautiously author the documents they intended to be the fabric of their contemporary society, and all future American democracy.
2nd thought......
I know they were swimming and struggling in relatively unchartered historical waters, but I also know their collective energy and intellect encompassed a healthy spectrum of 18th century experience and knowledge. Despite their often extreme economic and philosophical differences, they were able to compromise when necessary to create a noble nation plan for every rebel at their table.
3rd thought......
I doubt these fervent fellows surrendered so much as a short sentence, or even a wee word choice, without a healthy examination of what they were ALL about to commit to paper posterity with their ideological ink.
Ergo...... I believe PRECISENESS, and not AMBIGUITY, was both their needed seed and their intended fruit.
4th thought......
I realize our "founding fathers" lived and died in a world that could not even imagine what their rebellion might eventually reap, or how different our world would be from their world.
But I laud them for anticipating future realities, and for providing a rational and legal means to amend their ancestral aplomb.
to be continued......