By the way, a line should be drawn between the second amendment and the states as well because the second amendment is actually uniques in its wording and is not just a restraint on the feds. JMHO, of course.
Is that what the founding fathers intended? I strongly doubt it. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were thought to be universal. The original 13 states each adopted a very similar set of rights, as well. Consider the Virginia Constitution:
Sec. 13 - Militia; standing armies; military subordinate to civil powerCalifornia doesn't have such a cluase. Who will protect my second amendment rights here? Right now, I can't count on the federal government, the state government, the courts, or the press.
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
The founding fathers might be regretting their wording of the second amendment if they were alive to see what has happened, but I doubt that anything they could have written back then would have helped us.