Heller is a large document, could you provide the citations that are directly related to your claims?
I did. Post #16 of this thread. But let me spell it out for you:
First, I do agree with you and your use of that quote from Heller indicating open carry is covered by 2A, so there's no need to continually re-post that as no one has disagreed with you.
Second, I also agree that the right to bear arms is not unlimited.
Now that those have been cleared up, maybe you could actually keep an open mind to the following...
Third: I assert, based on Heller, that Self Defense is indeed fundamental to the 2A, and that the 2A statement regarding the militia was included as the reason the right was codified, not the sole purpose of the right.
"It is therefore entirely sensible that the Second Amendment ’s prefatory clause announces the purpose for which the right was codified: to prevent elimination of the militia. The prefatory clause does not suggest that preserving the militia was the only reason Americans valued the ancient right; most undoubtedly thought it even more important for self-defense and hunting. But the threat that the new Federal Government would destroy the citizens’ militia by taking away their arms was the reason that right—unlike some other English rights—was codified in a written Constitution. Justice Breyer’s assertion that individual self-defense is merely a “subsidiary interest” of the right to keep and bear arms, see post, at 36, is profoundly mistaken. He bases that assertion solely upon the prologue—but
that can only show that self-defense had little to do with the right’s codification; it was the central component of the right itself." (underline mine)
Later, the Heller opinion again calls out that self defense is core to the 2A:
"As the quotations earlier in this opinion demonstrate,
the inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right."
Fourth, your quotation does not go directly against my claim. Those two reasons for the right to bear arms (self-defense and militia defense from tyrannical government) aren't not contradictory, and both are clearly spelled out as protected by 2A. You can't use Heller to defend the one, and simply ignore the quotations above and assert 2A doesn't cover self defense.
