>And being truly honorable men who were not trying to deceive any faction, so did the framers of the Constitution. They spoke in plainness to each other. Unlike the politicians and ideologues of today, they meant just exactly what they said - and wrote. Nothing more and nothing less.

Which goes nowhere in terms explaining that they were predominantly lawyers.

>Some self defined sophisticates try to muddy up the definition of the phrase "the people" to mean some sort of vague collective continuum cognized by who knows who. Note that it was only "Powers", that were granted to CONGRESS, or granted to individual states if their constitutions also said so. Not rights!

The Bill or Rights is a longer list of prohibitions on the Government. The title is a catchphrase designed to get the Constitution ratified because enough states said they wouldn't do so with the limited list within the Constitution itself. The list can be changed by the process of amendment, something which the Supreme Court periodically reminds those who maintain that income taxes are unconstitutional.

>So the "Right" to bear arms cannot reside with any agency of government or any other cognate, but only with each citizen, as with all other rights.

Unless the Constitution is amended in this respect.

>With all the gun laws already on the books, all that has ever been accomplished is to disarm law abiding citizens

It's more a case of inadequately using the background check systems already in place. I for one have not problem with background checks, provided they are done, and waiting periods. But "take away the guns", as was done in Australia in the 1990s, NO.

>And if there really are teachers out there with such myopic views on the Constitution as I have described, it is no wonder that so many young people are so ignorant of what their rights really are - and aren't - and of how their government is supposed to be working.

Well, I haven't been quite able to discern what you are getting at by "myopic". I also don't think most people today don't understand the difference between the future and imperative tenses.