In law school early on they taught us that a fair reading of the Bible was subject to interpretation of the reader, just like a book on the theory of the flat earth or the source of creation, you can read and interpret based upon what ever reading skills and life experiences you had on that particular day.
But the US Constitution was designed and planned quite differently and in a better way. The reason is that the language, what it meant and how it was applied would be up to a balance of power, that balance being the Courts, the Executive Branch and the lawmakers or Congress.
The language of the original documents, would later be supplemented by a growing number of Amendments, with no end in sight.
In simple terms, if there was some misunderstanding as to language issues or applicability issues, it is pretty simple, the Court decides and if it needs change, the lawmakers fix it simple as that.
And every day now we hear some know it all tell us that Trump or someone else is doing unconstitutional things. So now the Courts will have to look at the original language, determine what it meant and whether any changes by lawmakers are correct.
There is no wording about Constitutional carry. Many assume the right to keep and bear gives that right. And many of us would want to agree. But keep and carry where?
There has never been a law giving a right that allows one to exercise that right anywhere he chooses, not one.
I can choose to eat human beings, chicken fry them if I want as a part of my cultural or chosen religious beliefs. But even if I have that religion, and can find dead people among highway accidents, the right to eat and right to believe that are inherent in the Constitution do not allow me do to that. It is a linear analogy and the rational is the same.
Everything has restrictions, and on Constitutional issues, the Courts get to decide what those restrictions are.
In early American there were no nuclear plants that barred us from walking inside with our chosen carry gun, today, there are none that will allow it. And that is inherently Constitutional.
The many states, cities and towns over the years have chosen to restrict the carry of guns, the ones mentioned in the Constitution that we can keep and bear. And lots of them have been very restrictive. Nobody reading this is so naive as to think that you will ever carry your CCW into the Superbowl, should you get a ticket. And nobody reading this is so naive as to think that you will ever carry your CCW into a college foot ball game or even a high school ball game--legally.
We know that because of the evolution of the Constitutional carry rights that exist today. That leaves us with a favorable Supreme Court, the only place that can define how carry applies to us in the world today.
We also have a favorable president and Congress to some degree. Our best bet is to get them to define the right as broadly as possible so we have more Constitutionally defined places that allow carry.
Shall not be infringed is often cited, so what? The Sup Court gets to decide what that language means, not me with my advanced legal training, and not the Senate with their far superior legal training. Just those 9 people who have that job on the Court. They get to decide the real meaning of all such words.
Regardless of how bizarre we might want the definition to be, we are just trying to impose our opinion of language, over the opinion of those 9 people who the Constitution gave that "right" to. The Constitution gave the right to define all amendments to the Supreme Court. And no matter how much we might like to steal away that right and use our own more literal interpretation, we do not have that right, and never will.
Just the way it is. Practically speaking, I do not care how they define it. When I became a s CCW instructor in 1996, there were only a handful of states where I could carry under my permit. Today, it is 38 states. My RV will not go to the other states anymore, and I am good with that.
Constitutional carry is where I go, by choice, never going to see some states again, and I am good with that.
