Reply #11: The only honest answer is

[Dookus]

"I don't know". Clearly, the amendment can be read two different ways, depending on which half of the sentence you stress.

Only one party can make the definitive claim as to what it means, and that's the Supreme Court of the United States, and they have have managed to avoid doing so for 215 years.

But to get back the earlier point - IF in fact the purpose of the amendment is to allow citizens to fight the government (which certainly isn't stated anywhere in the 2nd amendment: in fact, a well-regulated militia presumes a regulating body - the government), then one would have to allow individual ownership of a class of weapons capable of fighting the US military.

I'm not sure "A nuke in every garage" will do much to improve our lives.