I'm wading into the deep waters. I don't wanna be there, so don't be surprised if I don't swim back to shore and leave the discussion.
The Bill of Rights put in provisions to ensure the government would not become tyrannical, but the concept that it was to give citizens guns for private usage against the government is quite incorrect. The Founders and early Republic were rather fearful of the possibility of insurrection, and made no bones about not wanting the citizens of the Republic to overthrow their new state. Any US History Class will tell you how much they feared "Mobocracy" just in giving citizens more power in determining the government; granting them weapons for the purpose of overthrowing the government would be completely out of the question. Similarly, the natural right to keep arms for personal defense was already considered archaic in the Founding Father's day.
The amendment was written with the purpose of permitting the citizens of the United States to keep for the purpose of activity in their state militias, as a well regulated militia was necessary to the security of a free state, and to bear arms in combat on behalf of their militia.
When the militia system was replaced with the National Guard under Woodrow Wilson, the amendment became archaic.
The Bill of Rights put in provisions to ensure the government would not become tyrannical, but the concept that it was to give citizens guns for private usage against the government is quite incorrect. The Founders and early Republic were rather fearful of the possibility of insurrection, and made no bones about not wanting the citizens of the Republic to overthrow their new state. Any US History Class will tell you how much they feared "Mobocracy" just in giving citizens more power in determining the government; granting them weapons for the purpose of overthrowing the government would be completely out of the question. Similarly, the natural right to keep arms for personal defense was already considered archaic in the Founding Father's day.
The amendment was written with the purpose of permitting the citizens of the United States to keep for the purpose of activity in their state militias, as a well regulated militia was necessary to the security of a free state, and to bear arms in combat on behalf of their militia.
When the militia system was replaced with the National Guard under Woodrow Wilson, the amendment became archaic.