well-regulated...
Hence the standing army which, if we're going to give the Constitution eyes, is clearly what the framers meant.
But if we're strictly reading the Constitution, to keep and bear arms, you need to be part of this "well regulated" militia; drilling regularly, deployed frequently as part of the training, willing to drop everything and go where the duly elected President and Congess send you...
Does that sound like anyone here? Obviously not. I know of none who dropped everything and enlisted...not a lot of WiFi in Khandahar I suppose.
You're stuck in the big govt knows better than you do and will provide
State Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Provisions
Just strictly reading the constitution. "Well-regulated militia" is in the 2nd Amendment....is it not?
If you want to keep and bear arms, you're supposed to be part of a "well regulated militia". Sorry, that's what it says.
I have no problem with that... Except when your country needs you and you're part of this militia, you decide that you're too busy cashing checks to go to Khandahar or Bosnia.
Then I suggest you look up the definition of "militia". Here it is for you as you seem incapable of doing simple research.
2: the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service.
Militia - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary