Was Humpty a SCOTUS Justice when the 2nd Amendment was "reinterpreted" in HELLER?

[Atticus]

---from "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll:

"When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

[EX500rider]

1. Wasn't so much reinterpreted as reaffirmed

Unless you can point me to a time anywhere/anytime in the US where you were required to be in a militia to own firearms?

Surely the original authors knew what they meant, did they start enforcing you to be in a militia after it passed?

The fact that is in the "Bill of Rights" ought to be a big clue that it is a individual right.

[Atticus]

2. That's satire, right? If not, it's perhaps the most ridiculously disingenuous post I've seen

on this board or elsewhere.

[EX500rider]

3. In other words you can't point to any time militia membership was required for firearm ownership

Meaning it was always a individual right...as are all the 1st 10 amendments.

The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion.

[Atticus]

4. Exactly who in this thread mentioned anyone at any time "requiring" a person to belong to a militia

in order to own a firearm? I understand that you'd rather discuss that than the plain meaning of the Second Amendment: for the purpose of possibly being called to serve in a "well regulated militia", yes, INDIVIDUALS may bear arms.

Have a good one.

[EX500rider]

5. Well then I don't see what you meant

When you said they reinterpreted the second amendment if it's always been an individual right which it has

[Atticus]

6. I think I will end further comment as I have absolutely no idea what you just

meant to say.

[edhopper]

7. Which can't be regulated

Or restricted in any way?
Then what's with the "Well regulated part"?

[EX500rider]

8. I don't think anyone thinks its free from restriction

There are and always have been many firearm restrictions and laws.