If you take the argument as shallow as possible sure. But the more rigorous argument is: the enormous and egregious blind spots of the people who created our founding documents should encourage us to revise and reinterpret their work as our knowledge changes/grows.
The better argument, of course, is that the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment put forward by the NRA et al is historically novel and assumes that the founders put in the clause about the well-regulated militia as a “by the by, just so’s you know” kinda thing.
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I think the argument that most people make, myself included, is that the militia bit means keeping the citizenry armed so they can form a militia. If you'll recall, it was a citizen militia primarily that won the Revolution. The two things are related, but not dependent.
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Form a militia if necessary*
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