What these pseudo-intellectual wingnuts like Mr. Dudley seem to forget when they talk about the "militia" reference being a "qualifying phrase" is that as such, it is NOT the primary phrase in the 2A. It is a descriptor, a conditional, an explaining reason WHY the second (and MAIN) phrase MUST BE. It is not the ONLY reason why the People shall keep and bear arms, but it is, in a Free State, the most important...
The right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed...
BECAUSE the security of a free state REQUIRES that a militia is necessary. And a Militia IS the People. The militia IS NOT the Fed. It is NOT the State. It is not even a municipal government. It is the PEOPLE.
And the PEOPLE must be ever-vigilant, ever-prepared, and ever-ready to SECURE their freedom, against ALL THREATS, foreign AND domestic.
THAT is what the 2A is about, Mr. Dudley. Since anti-2A sheeple like you won't prepare and equip yourself to secure your own freedom and the freedom of your communities, those of us who CAN and WILL are going to be the ones you hide behind when the JBTs come for you, and your children, and your property. Because it's not a matter of "if", but of "when"...
There is only one thing I hate more than the willfully ignorant, and that is people who pretend to be smart by throwing around big words of which they do not know the meaning...