Why is it so hard for people to understand the 2nd Amendment?

The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE

ALL anti-gun laws are unconstitutional.

Militia is a military force comprised of ordinary people, WE are the militia, NOT THE MILITARY

Since its mentioned as a right of all citizen's in the constitution then individual states have no right to have different gun laws. (Cough.. New York)

also, why are we even debating this, Places with more gun laws have a higher crime rate.

Places with High Gun ownership statistics have low crime rates

someone could stop a mad shooter in a mini-mall or a college campus.

I don't think it is necessarily hard to understand them, just people don't want to. People think that allowing everyone to have a gun is a reason for crime. They think that by making sure no one has guns then crime will go down. The only way to make sure "no one" has guns is to interpret the amendment differently than what it clearly states.

It's that pesky preamble to the 2nd Amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."

Truly the Founding Fathers botched the language on this. They could have chosen a much clearer sentiment like "An armed socieity..." or "A well armed people..."

The definition of the militia has become obscured over the years. Even by your own definition of "a military force comprised of ordinary people" to me could easily be confused with a state Guard.

Why is it so hard for you to write the full text of the amendment and not just the part that says what you want to hear?

cause we are not americans

because liberals are deaf, pity they aren't mute instead.

Amen to the Supreme Court this morning.

I recall the quips "What's another term for a conservative who's in favor of carrying concealed weapons? A liberal who was mugged to an inch of his/her life." and "What was the colonial term for a vegetarian? Somebody too blind to shoot his own game."

Most modern anti-gun liberals I've talked with don't quite grasp how dangerous Colonial and early Federal America was, and how so much of the food they ate had to be hunted - especially for the vast majority that lived in rural areas. If somebody attacked your rural house 200+ years ago, you had to deal with it, yourself, and right away, because the sheriff might be two travel days distant by horseback - if the Territory _HAD_ a sheriff. And look a the menus of the "public houses" of the time - quite a bit of venison, duck, etc. - and the way to bet was that that stuff wasn't raised on a farm....

The real problems with the lack of understanding of the Second Amendment are (IMHO, of course) 1) city dwellers (the majority of Americans now) lead very sheltered lives with easy access to law enforcement and courts, 2) "meat comes from the store", a total lack of understanding how meat gets produced, now or historically, and 3) History and "civics" are poorly taught, if at all, in most American public schools. I've met too many 20 and 30-something products of the public schools who basically have no knowledge of U. S. history before John Kennedy and Elvis Presley, let alone the Constitution. :-(