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Despite the lefts' inane rhetoric about the right to keep and bear arms belonging solely to the "militia", they fail to understand that the people of the several states WERE the militia. The 2nd recognizes the right of a state to defend itself from attack, as well as the right of the people to defend themselves.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 28, "The Same Subject Continued: The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered", 26 December 1787.