[RonF]

The way I read the Second Amendment is this:

"If the general population has to be called out and formed into a militia due to great need, we won't have time to teach them how to shoot. So everyone should be free to own and use guns."

[tcostell]

I think that's a part of it, but the real purpose of the second amendment is to put the ultimate threat of the use of force in the hands of the individual citizens, in that they might use it to prevent tyranny.

At the end of the day it's about power. The people who are attracted to life in government always want more of it form themselves, but the framers wanted a check on that, and that check is the second amendment.

[ctdonath2]

"...nor will we have resources to equip them..."