All of the bill of rights are individual rights, not collective rights. It would make no sense for only the 2nd amendment to be a collective right. Also, just look up a dictionary from back then on what a militia was - individual gunowners.
This is a basic result of being brainwashed in the communist schools - collectivism = govt. owns everything, controls the money supply (and counterfeits it) , taxes you like a slave etc. and only gives you a gun to go work as an agent of the govt. to go opppress other slaves who get out of line.
Ed Vieira has written extensively on this subject. If you read some of his stuff and , for instance, the Georgia militia law from the 1760's , you will obviously see what the 2nd amendment is all about. Dr. V is also very big on sound money. He has authored laws for states such as New Hampshire to do transactions in gold and silver. He has writtten a huge book called "Pieces of Eight" on money.
Here is an excerpt :
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin12.htm
In every Colony and independent State from the mid-1600s to the late 1700s immediately prior to ratification of the Constitution, the Militia consisted of every able-bodied male, typically from 16 to 50 or 60 years of age, each of whom was required by law to keep in his personal possession at home a firearm suitable for military use (for most of them a musket or rifle, for some a brace of pistols), together with a supply of ammunition (assembled cartridges, black powder, and lead shot); a bayonet, tomahawk, or sword; and other accoutrements necessary to outfit an infantry soldier or cavalry trooper.
Throughout the original thirteen Colonies and States, the laws required each Militiaman to buy his own arms and ammunition in the free market--thus implicitly guaranteeing the existence and operation of such a market. If he were under 21 years of age, or an apprentice or servant, though, a Militiaman could require his parents or employer to supply him with a suitable firearm and ammunition. If he were one of the working poor, he might receive assistance from his local government in obtaining a job through which to earn the money to buy them. And local governments, or very often the Militia, provided publicly owned arms to those individuals too poor to purchase them on their own account. That is, We the People always required themselves to provide themselves with firearms, either directly as individuals, or indirectly through the Militia in which they served or the public officials whom they elected.
