Should the 2d Amendment be amended to remove the confusing first phrase?

Leave the words alone, fiddle with the interpretations.

I'd agree with simply "The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." No qualifiers. However, if you put it up for amendment under the procedure outlined in the Constitution, you couldn't predict what the outcome would be today. Leave it alone.

Article 1 of the Constitution defines a Militia and places it under the Command of the President. I see no need to expand that.

I was thinking it might help for Congress to pass a resolution containing an official definition, with discussion, on its meaning. But now that I know Congress better, I think the definition would change every time the political party with a majority changed.

Maybe certain chapters of The Federalist Papers could be officially foot-noted as references for the language-confused.

First Phrase isn't confusing at all it is very clear and absolute the problem these days is most people can't read

I agree with CPT Jack Durish, If you start changing the wording it will just open up a big can worms. Just an observation, why do we need, as hopefully intelligent people, to down grade each other during these discussions?

I say no. Leave it as is. People understood our language much better back in those times. When you start to debate about what this or that should say from back then, we start to divide views and split hairs over things that don't really need splitting. I have always wondered why we needed "interpretations" of our constitution. What is there to interpret? Webster made a dictionary. Don't know what a word means? Look it up. Fill in the blank and there is your legal definition. But that is just my "interpretation".

Might not be a bad idea, just to stick it to all those leftie pinko snowflake anti-gunners.

I think the amendment is clear as written but unfortunately "activists judges read unwritten words into our constitution. we see this most obviously where freedom of religion becomes "freedom from religion". however, this does not seem to apply to Muslims. that being said, I like the way the proposal is worded.

We know it