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1. Grow up. The Wild West was nearly 2 centuries ago. Get over your cowboy movie fantasies. The Wild West saw it as a sign of progress when people no longer wore gun belts everywhere. Even when they did, there were LAWS and REGULATIONS about not bringing them into saloons, schools, churches, banks, and government offices.
2. The 2nd amendment refers to militias for a reason. When it was written, states (and colonies prior to that) had "well regulated militias" of citizens that government called upon for emergency situations to keep order or defend against outsider attacks. They met regularly to train and had ranking officers in charge. They answered to local governments and did not operate as rogue anti government agencies. Their 18th century role is now served by a standing "militia" called the National Guard. The 2nd amendment's stated purpose, to enable a call up of trained citizen militias is obsolete.
3. All rights and liberties in the constitution are subject to rules and regulations. Free speech, for example, does not include a right to incite violence. It does not include the right to slander or libel others with impunity. So gun ownership is also subject to rules and regulations to protect the rights of citizens to live freely without random gun murders, slaughters, and terrorism of citizens.
4. Get over the paranoid idea that you need guns to protect you from "the government." We live in a republic, which is a representative democracy. That means that YOU are the government. Participate through voting, party membership, and promotion of ideas through public discussions, not through the force of guns in government offices as threats. In today's world, even an AR15 is puny against a bomb or drone, so get over childish fantasies of being a modern day Minuteman.
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