Anti-gun groups, in utter defiance of history, logic, jurisprudence and simple definitions of words, continue to battle the notion of an individual right to bear arms.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

People need to read the constitution and it's amendments for themselves, instead of having all these groups tell them what they think it says. When you do that you realize it's pretty black and white. Enough said.

Eugene Volokh had a post yesterday about two polls which showed the public overwhelming in favor of an individual rights interpretation. Seems that Ashcroft's views are not quite so "radical" or "outside the mainstream" as some make them out to be.

It's of a piece with certain peoples' battle against reality.

No, I think you have it all wrong. The Constitution has a typo; the original intent of the Founding Fathers was to state that the right to keep bear arms shall not be infringed. Dunno what they used those bear arms for. I'd think they'd start to get pretty ripe after a while.