"The founders were closer to my view than yours;"
Utter crap! The founders believed in personal responsability. THAT is why they believed in the citizen soldier rather than 'professionals' as a standing army. The founding fathers knew History.
You just said, "You're wrong! You're right..."
You are right, but do not take into account of what the Founding Fathers would have thought about a standing army in today's technological environment.
For example, they could never have thought that one missile could destroy ten cities in less than an hour, from 12,000 miles away.
Given that hard fact, their philosophy now would be different than it was then. You have a different threat, therefore you must have a different defense and a different active response to that threat.