People need to wrap their heads around this immediately

[Lithos]

10. the whole point of the Second Amendment

was to allow a local citizenry to arm and protect themselves from a Slave revolt. The basis comes from concerns of George Mason and Patrick Henry who worried that Federal government's response would be too slow. It was one of the bribes used to bring Virginia into the fold. At the time Madison wrote it, only white men could carry arms and having arms was the only mechanism which white men could defend themselves. In a pro-active sense it signaled to the slaves that any attempt to assert anything above and beyond the status quo would be dealt with harshly.

In a sense, this function of maintaining status quo has now been largely supplanted by the increasingly militarized police force. All that Scalia did was create a diversion and throw a bone to the paranoid in society.

I read somewhere here on DU that the 2nd Amendment should have been scrapped when the 13th and 14th Amendments were passed and I agree.