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The meaning of the Second Amendment is abundantly clear to anyone with at least a third-grade education. Because American citizens might need to be called upon to gather together and fight a threat (whether internal or external) against the sovereignty of the American people, the government is prohibited from infringing the right of all American citizens to own and bear arms. This right is unequivocally to the individual citizen and one of the foreseen benefits is that well-armed individual citizens should be able to come together as a "well-regulated" (meaning well-provisioned so that it can function as intended) force to resist any forces that seek to take away our freedom. "Well-regulated" clearly does not mean an ability for government to apply restrictions on individual American citizens. Any such twisted interpretation is simply laughable. Therefore, if American citizens need to be able to join together in a well-provisioned militia to fight off other military forces in defense of freedom, then American citizens have the inalienable right to keep and bear military-grade weapons.
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