Not only does the 2nd A. reasonably imply the use of arms for self defense as opposed to for sports or hunting, but beware of any discussion about the 2nd A. where the 14th A. is not also mentioned. The 14th A. is important for any discussion about the 2nd A. for the following reason. John Bingham, the main author of Sec. 1 of the 14th A. included the 2nd A. when he referenced the first eight amendments as examples of constitutional statutes containing privileges and immunities that the 14th A. applied to the states. So there is no doubt in my mind that the 2nd and 14th Amendments protect the personal right to bear arms from both the federal and state governments as much as any other constitutional privilege and immunity protects other personal rights.
See the 2nd A. in the middle column of the following page in the Congressional Globe, a precursor to the Congressional Record.
http://tinyurl.com/y3ne4nNote that the reference page is dated for more than two years after the 14th A. was ratified. So Bingham was evidently reassuring his colleagues about the scope and purpose of the ratified 14th Amendment.
Also, in addition to Obama's politically correct slants on the 2nd A., let's not overlook Obama's constitutionally unauthorized federal spending proposals. This post (<-click), while addressing a tax-related thread, explains in more detail why misguided dreamers like Obama are foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In fact, in sharp contrast to Obama's vision for health care, note that Thomas Jefferson, while reflecting on the Founder's division of federal and state powers, emphasized that the Founders trusted the states, not the federal government, with the care of the people.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, (emphasis mine) our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jI think that Obama, like FDR, is clueless to the fact that he first needs to rally the people to exercise their Article V powers to amend the Constitution to properly authorize the federal government to address health care issues. In the meanwhile, we cannot allow people like Obama to make our high federal taxes even higher to pay for federal government programs that are constitutionally unauthorized in the first place.
The bottom line is that the people need to reconnect themselves with the restraints that the Founders put on the federal government as reflected by the Constitution. Bluntly put, the people need to quit sitting on their hands and send home constitutional "experts" like Obama who are not upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution, as opposed to trying to send them to the Oval Office.