Gun Control & RKBA

...which reflect the intent of the Founders, that that the RKBA is a personal right unrestricted by the need for service in an organized non-reserve militia. Per Federalist #46: "To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands..." the plan, intent and the weight of the history of its actual implementation shows the RKBA to be an individual right unconnected to any formal militia service. Recent SCOTUS rulings have echoed the same.

A new law and any changes to existing laws attempting to redefine the militia or codify restrictions according to the letter of that wording would meet with opposition from not only those 45 and older but also those gun owners who are female. It has been a stated intent from both pro-rights and pro-control sides of this debate to identify with the spirit of the law consistent with the plan of the Founders. The fact that the pro-rights interpretation is gaining credibility and a history of case law congruence, I'm sure, frosts their collective cookies but makes mostly for efforts on their part to "blame" some faction they seek to vilify, be that the NRA, the far right, old white men, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts or their 1967 Home Ec class.

IMHO most of these efforts seek to build political support for candidates and incumbents by finding a point of difference between them and their opposition and taking a countering position to that opposition. If a Republican opponent declared his/her favor for plastic bottling, it would be considered (and rightly not dismissed) by the Democratic opposition whether to espouse the glass bottle wherever feasible.