Introduction Setting the Target The men who engineered the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, with its Bill of Rights, are among history's geniuses because they created documents with the proper combination of flexibility, timelessness, specificity, and semantic clarity that are as valid today as when they were written. For example, while our founding fathers could not have foreseen television, political commercials, and/or pornographic videos, their wonderful and absolute First Amendment freedoms are as important and strong today as they were more than two centuries ago. Likewise, in 1791, every large muzzle-loading rifle was an assault weapon, yet the amazing clarity and honest truth of the Second Amendment is as legally valid today as we head into our third century. Yet, here we are, still debating the legal meaning of the Second Amendment. It makes me very sad when I consider those subcaliber Big Bore politicians of today who would disarm our populace by sodomizing that Second Amendment. It makes me sad because, thanks to the First Amendment and because of our nation's love of history, I can read of the absolute genius of true leaders, statesmen, and patriotic heroes like James Madison, Patrick Henry,