Virginia was the pivotal vote in the ratification. So it was rather important where Virginia stood and Patrick Henry was the voice for Virginia and being the pivotal vote, he bent it hard to the way he wanted it more than most. Call quoting the debate as cherry picking all you want. It's just a dodge.
Um, wait a minute… Virginia's representatives at the Constitutional Convention were John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, James McClurg, Edmond Randolph, George Wythe, and George Washington.
What did they say?
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
― James Madison
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington
First President of the United States
Hey, here's your guy….
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
Patrick Henry
American Patriot
And yes, what you did was some massive cherry picking. It's no dodge, and everyone here knows it.