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At the time the constitution was ratified, a 'well-regulated' militia consisted of the people, trained to arms and martial exercise. The people meaning farmers, merchants, everyday average citizens. It wasn't until 1903 that a Kansas Supreme Court did something totally unorthodox and unethical for a judiciary body. They decided to look at the right to keep and bear arms as an 'original question' and redefined militia to mean state armed forces. The rest, as they say, is reinterprative history.
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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
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