Actually, to avoid giving the commies a chance to pervert the terms meaning, owning a weapon is a natural right the constitution expressly forbids the government from interfering with (infringing).
The federal constitution, being a contract between the states who created the federal government, and their creature the federal government, is a limited powers document, severely limiting what the federal government is allowed to do. Too many citizens over the past century have failed to grasp they have to hold the federal government to the clearly defined limits set forth in the contract.
This is a problem with all forms of law. There is no way to use mere words to stop a tyrant. As far as "taking action" is concerned, good people will always wait until it is too late. They cannot act until it is absolutely necessary, right?
The federal constitution, being a contract between the states who created the federal government, and their creature the federal government, is a limited powers document, severely limiting what the federal government is allowed to do.
Yours is an idealistic view of the Constitution and anachronistic, I am very sorry to say.
Here are my definitions as a historian:
"Well-regulated" - The problem with a militia is the hodgepodge of obsolete weapons they show up with as irregulars. The founders believed that the noble citizenry, the people, would keep themselves armed with the latest weapons if just left alone.
"Militia" - The founders wrote a lot about standing armies. They considered the threat very real. The monopoly of force that is claimed by law enforcement today runs directly counter to this conviction. No-knock warrants, civil asset forfeiture, qualified immunity, and worst of all the Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement has no duty to protect the citizenry, all features of standing armies, all combine to create the very situation that the founders believed they had prevented with the 2nd ammendment.
"The right of the people" - We simply do not live in a Christian country any more. There are still some in the Baptist church who will quote Romans 13 to mean you must submit to tyranny, which is not true. When we say "with right and conscience" we are saying God is with us while defying the tyranny of King George, Justin Trudeau, and Gavin Newsome, just to name a few.