Supreme Court to Overturn DC Gun Ban once and for all

[wacki]

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So if Scalia really wants our laws to reflect the reality of what they meant when they were passed, he will not vote to uphold the right of an individual to own guns based on the 2nd amendment.

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There are a lot of letters, articles, quotes etc from the founding fathers and reporters of the time that strongly disagree with your reading of the 2A. Some of their opinions are documented in this documentary DVD:

http://www.secondamendmentdocumentary.com/

It would be dishonest to claim Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton supported the regulation of arms. As for each and every individual signor of the constitution well there is room for debate. But even James Madison seems to read the Constitution differently than you do:

"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
--James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/econo...otes/arms.html

Here are a lot of law professors that flat out disagree with your reading of the the 2A:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxwNeViNW0Q

I also don't read the 2A the same way you do. It appears to me that your argument is based mostly off of a semicolon and not expressed opinions of those who drafted the Constitution. So until new information comes to light I guess we will simply have to agree to disagree.