If your view of the BOR is so skewed that you believe a right only exists once you are accused then you must believe that anyone who buys a gun is "the people" and the right to keep and bear that gun is only invoked after the fact. What do you think the founders meant when they said the "people".
If they meant me then they meant you too. They meant all of the people (that they considered citizens at the time). The only exception would be someone who had forfeited freedom and rights under existing law.
Instead of, "They meant all of the people (that they considered citizens at the time)" can we just shorten that to, "They meant citizens"?
Fine. Then why didn't they say "citizens" in the second amendment? They did elsewhere in the constitution -- Article IV, Section 2 says, "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States."
I'm thinking they didn't mean citizens. Citizens included women and children. It included the elderly, the infirm, the insane, the crippled. Was it their intent to turn "the security of a free state" over to this group?
The Militia act of 1792 seems to negate that. It called for an "able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States", 18-45 years of age. Wasn't it their right that was protected from federal infringement? Weren't the Founders concerned that the federal government might disarm their militia?