Wow! This is a rather substancially intellectual debate for 3AM on AR15.com.....
In any event, here's my input to this conversation. There's only 2 points I have to make.
1) The founding fathers (particularly Jefferson & Franklin) took their philosophy and ideology from many sourses, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Descartes, Voltaire, Calvinism, Socrates, and Plato. This little snippet directly relates strongest towards some of Locke's writings in the 2nd Treatice on Government. Locke meant that all men are equally entitled to find unclaimed property and claim it as their own in order to live. They have the right to defend that property, their liberty, and protect their lives. Both Locke and Jefferson believed that rights came from God rather than a monarch.
2) It has become incredibly clear to virtually every scholar who has examined the writings of the founding fathers, that if nothing else, these were direct, concise men. They meant what they wrote and they wrote what they meant. While the writings of Locke can be hard to grasp at times, all the writings of our parental patriots are remarkably understandable to the dimmest of people. The very notion that there is some mystical secret implied meaning behind the 2nd ammendment is laughable to the extreme, if anyone doubts me, please feel free to read any of Jefferson's, Paine's, Franklin's or Adams' views on firearms.