Are you for or against the 2nd Amendment??

[Spider Jerusalem]

111. I think that the Second Amendment should be repealed; it's an archaic anachronism...

that has no place in the modern world.

What does it say? "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."

Points, here: what is the militia? The militia is a body of citizen soldiers trained in arms and formally organised in units, called into service as needed (in wartime, to suppress civil disturbance, etc). This function is fulfilled by the National Guard today. When the Second Amendment was written? There was no organised National Guard, there were state and local militias (and the US Army had a strength of eight hundred men, because of a prejudice against maintaining standing armies--and the fledgling United States was surrounded by three potentially hostile European colonial powers, one of which it had just fought a war with, and by numerous potentially hostile native tribes). Joe Blow with an AR in his closet isn't doing anything at all related to a "well-regulated militia". And what does "bear arms" mean? At the time the Second Amendment was written, that phrase ALWAYS had a specifically military context; to "bear arms" was to serve in an organised military unit (not to have a rifle for hunting), hence the connection of "right to bear arms" with "well-regulated militia".