The other side to the 2ndA is that you don't HAVE to have arms! Unlike Switzerland e.g., you are NOT FORCED to have any armament!
I cannot understand how any1 can miss the whole point of the American Revolution and what it taught the generation who fought it.
The Founders were all about *recognizing* (as opposed to GRANTING, which too many here seem to think not to mention all the Joe Schmoes out there) NATURAL RIGHTS.
If they were concerned that there are NATURAL rights such as the right to self-defense (in whatever form!) which cannot be infringed and that they recognized in the BOR, how on earth would the Founders think it was OK for states' gov's (as part of the nation) to infringe these *natural rights* (Jefferson's "inalienable") any more than the national gov?
Unbelievable!
Very well said!