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Nope. Concealed carry at or around schools has not been legal for a long time.
This is because the CA "may issue" law is no longer applicable, meaning they can't turn you down to ccw if you aren't a criminal, etc. and they can't just decide nobody in their county/city gets a CCW. So this is a workaround way to blocking CCW. Makes zero sense.
That's not what court interpretations have held at all. The 2nd amendment protects the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms. Period. The right to self defense is inherent to existence as an individual, whether against individuals or government. Arms are a legally protected and held right to use in self-defense.
This has been covered ad nauseam for centuries. The people who wrote the constitution almost uniformly wrote in support of individual firearm ownership. The courts all the way up to the supreme court have ruled this way in basically every landmark case. Yes, a militia is also protected and is the natural consequence of the declaration of independence and ensuing bill of rights. The 2nd amendment, nor its authors, have anywhere stated that individuals are to keep and bear arms hidden in their closet until a militia is formed and then they can exercise that right. It's a nonsensical stance.
Most of the court interpretations of the 2A are appalling. Precedent should only be followed if something can be interpreted multiple ways, when that is the case we should error on the side of precedent.
It's not the case here, there's not much left for interpretation with the 2A:
"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."
The intent of the law is clearly spelled out in the first half of the sentence. How does one get personal defense from that? If personal defense was the purpose they would have written it that way, it's not as if the drafters of the constitution were shitty writers.