A lot of liberals & progressives have a problem with the phrase "the right of the people," for some reason ... perhaps thinking it ought to be tempered or modified, "or taken in proper context with" the "well regulated militia" part of the 2A.
Author Stephen Halbrook in his book
That Every Man Be Armed examines and debunks the liberal interpretation of the 2A (essentially a "group rights" interpretation as opposed to an individual rights one).
Hey, I majored in English in college and I never "got" the "collective rights" concept either.
But then, Shakespeare and Chaucer provided no help at all with the 2A.
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