I have a problem with the NEED to evaluate, translate, or interpret the second amendment. It was not originally written in chinese, or Russian, it was written in English, and it is my opinion if you can read it, you can understand it.
From what has been said here, and elsewhere, Hugh Damright, has a different meaning of it. He seems to read it like this.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, except by the states, the counties, the cities, the towns, the preciincts, or the neighborhood watch groups."
Personally, I like it this way.