[therut]

YOU AGAIN!!!! Yes the founders stated “A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state” You are right they did say a militia was necessary. They though it important. But the right to keep and bear arms is given to the people. Why you ask. Well to make a well regulated militia possible even if the Federal Government wanted to disarm the militia which was their fear. So in the great understanding of human nature being as it is they gave the right to keep and bear arms to the people not the militia and not the STATE and not the Federal .gov. Simply to the people where FREEDOM and LIBERTY can be protected aganist TYRANNY. Simple.

[El Gato]

But the right to keep and bear arms is given to the people

Not quite, the pre-existing right of the people is protected, not created or given, by the second amendment.