>>29
"The people" "keep" and "bear" are very vague phrases. For example, if every citizen were a member of a militia with a stockpile of weapons that were collectively owned and not for personal use, then the text of the Second Amendment would be satisfied verbatim. Nowhere in the Constitution does it explicitly (<--- key word here) state that "every individual can own a weapon for personal use."
>>30
I'm not sure what the hell you mean by "psuedo-academic" but the Constitution does need to be interpreted by an authority. And it's no accident that all nine Supreme Court Justices went to Harvard, Yale or Columbia Law if I recall correctly. There are sometimes complicated issues regarding the Constitution that most people are simply not qualified to resolve. And nobody here has said anything about a person being not allowed to vote or being not
allowed to have an opinion (who is the one obfusticating again?). The flip side of that is that if you don't have an education or you can't express a compelling argument, I'm under no obligation to give your opinion a shred of respect.