[Sherman Logan]

The 2nd Amendment is about allowing you the means to protect yourself and family from human predators.

Actually, as has often been pointed out, the purpose of the 2nd is to ensure that the government does not have a monopoly on force, that the People provide a counterbalance.

Ability to protect against other than governmental human predators is a nice side-effect, but it was not the reason the 2nd was created.

[MasterGunner01]

I concur that resistance to an overreaching government is the primary reason for the 2A. However, I was addressing her in the terms she would understand — defense of self and family.