More guns don't make society safer. The idea of a good guy with a gun has proven to be a myth so we need to get rid of the guns so we all do not need to be armed to be safe. Your idea is not what the Framers had in mind when the 2nd was written. We are now to the point where we are having multiple mass shootings in a week, so more guns haven't made the country safer but instead the opposite has occurred. There are also many cops who have no business on the force because of their lack of intelligence and their abusive personalities.
If you don't believe me then read the word of conservative SCOTUS justice Warren Burger.
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I have been wondering about the Second Amendment advice that a militia is needed to protect a free STATE.
THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION is intended to limit the power of the Federal Government and to assure the freedom of the people and the various STATES protecting them FROM the power of the USA.
IS THERE ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE CONSTITUTION WHERE THE WORD "STATE" IS USED AND IT DOES
NOT REFERENCE OR MORE OF THE VARIOUS
STATES?
At the time of the writing of the Constitution, there was an actual Continental Army. It was THIS army that was intended to protect the COUNTRY.
Many have theorized that the gathering of minds to create our country and Constitution was a pretty smart bunch- one of the most gifted and genius level in the history of mankind taken as a group organized at a single point.
What are the chances that this particular choice of this particular word was a mistake that departed from their actual intent(s)?
To me, it seems VERY likely that the Framers were intending the right to bear arms as the final line of defense by "A FREE STATE" literally against the FEDERAL government by states and probably against States by the People.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of
a free State, the right
of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The Second Amendment does not reference the United States or the Congress or any group of states. Like the Tenth Amendment, it references the "state".
It SEEMS like any individual
state was a seen as a component to the United States and the preservation of each state's integrity and identity was a pretty important idea to the Framers.