Going back to the definition of "bear" when the amendments were crafted, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755, has something like 36 definitions of the word "bear", but only two fit the context of the Second Amendment: "To carry as a burden", and "To convey or carry".
"He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands."
-- Declaration of Independence.
So you are trying to say that they meant "...taken Captive...to carry or convey Arms...", as in it was a complaint against slavery???? Or "...taken Captive...to carry as a burden Arms..."
No, that's laughable. If they are just carrying Arms around why is the choice between, "become the executioners of their friends and Brethren," or, "to fall themselves by their (the friends and Brethren's or the captors, I'm not sure which was intended) Hands."
"Bear Arms" means taking up arms, as in to fight. We were declaring independence in part because the King was conscripting our citizens and forcing them to fight and kill (or be killed by) other citizens, brother and friend against one another.
Pretty simple.
"The" is a definite article. Definite articles are used in one of a few ways.
1) To refer to something all parties know and understand. ("The Constitution")
2) To refer to something already mentioned in the conversation. ("the argument")
3) When defining a particular person or object ("the original poster")
4) Objects which are unique ("the moon")
on and on...
When I read "The Right of The People to Keep and Bear Arms" I hit that first "The" and say "this is something that has already been mentioned, is understood by everyone, is unique, is....", in other words, I see that it is a The ____________ sort of thing.
The people who wrote that amendment referenced a thing they figured everyone would know so well that there was no need to define it. "Keep and Bear Arms" wasn't the definition, it was the NAME. It was shorthand for all sorts of assumptions that the authors considered so obvious you wouldn't need to list them all.
We've lost consensus on that definition. We've had so many generations of cultural drift, so many waves of immigrants (and I'm a descendant of immigrants myself), we've gone in so many directions socially, that even here on THR there are a thousand conceptions of TRotPtKBA.
Any dictionary thumping on "infringe" is irrelevant until you define The Thing.
Contrast the wording of the 2nd with the other amendments. The 1st is direct... "congress shall make no law _________", the 3rd is equally direct, "No Soldier shall _________"
The 4th is like the 2nd... it names a thing that everyone knows and understands. <The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures>, shall _______"
The 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th are all like the 1st and 3rd.
You can say you don't need a single definition for The Right, and that's true, but you do need a general consensus. If 14% think it's an individual right to any and all weapons, 40% think it's an individual right to firearms, 30% think it's a state right to small arms (but not WMDs), 10% think it's a collective (state) right to all weapons, and 6% think it's an individual right to the sorts of weapons available during the revolution... then your best consensus is that 54% agree that it's at least an individual right to firearms.