Just thinking out loud.
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Essentially, in addition to saying “NO SPLIT ALLEGIANCES”, Bingham also stated, “NATURALIZED = ADOPTED”; Bingham never asserted “NATURALIZED = NATURAL-BORN.”
The term NATURAL-BORN could not be made more simple than it already was, and Congress fully understood the differences between the words Bingham utilized as he utilized them.
Furthermore, the evils of TYRANNY wasn’t an alien concept for the founders; they didn’t need to define ARMS any more than the authors of the 14th needed to define differences between the terms NATURAL-BORN and ADOPTED.
I mean, I would dare believe, “We the People” should be allowed to own any weapon a government is allowed to wield, due to the fact the government consists of (or SHOULD consist of) “We the People”, and I would dare believe the founders would agree with that, wholeheartedly.
In other words, ARMS are ARMS — whether the arms exist as/on guns, cannons, navy vessels, tanks, flamethrowers, rockets, jets, subs, spacecrafts, space lasers, para-gliders, chemical weapons, planet destroyers, etc. — any freedom-loving American should have the capacity to fortify their existence via any form of mutually assured destruction.
Furthermore, as crazy as the “mutually assured destruction” assertion may be, even with NUKES in the mix, I 100% believe America’s founders would feel the same way, because they knew crazy tyrants could only be matched with crazy offenses/defenses, so they knew how placing defined limits on what ARMS may or may not be could only serve as an act of infringement, an alienation of rights, a crime against any free law-abiding American.
I find myself to be quite in agreement with your points.
Regarding the issue of 'natural born citizen', this thread has been quite an education process for me.