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Craigclev,
The second amendment is obviously an individual right since it refers to the People, as does other rights in the bill of rights, which Liberals haven't challenged. The composition of the army is covered in the body of the Constitution.
And you're wrong about the current administration. In recent memory, the Bush administration recognized the second amendment as an individual right. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, in May of 2001, acknowledged that official truth. Due to recent supreme court cases, most notably the District of Columbia vs. Heller case, and then the McDonald vs. Chicago case, the Obama administration has begrudgingly had to concede.
Obama has no intention of protecting your gun rights - in fact, quite the opposite. He has been relatively quiet about gun control because he knows a lot of his base are relatively poor folks, but gun owners. Also, gun ownership in black communities is high (for self-protection). Obama knows that blacks wouldn't take kindly to him being against their gun ownership.
The quotes I included for you (way above in the stack) should help you understand that the Founders considered the genesis of a corrupt government to be a distinct possibility. Their "militia" was the People, the citizen soldier, and that our regular military was meant exclusively for our protection.