Anyone who suggest that the founding fathers wanted to enable private militias with weapons so that they could overthrow the federal government if they did not like what the government is doing is a damned fool ignorant of history. You need to be reminded of the Whiskey Rebellion and the Civil War. Also such an intent is a recipe for political instability and chaos.
It’s the cult of the gun, blessed by Jesus who tells their witch doctors that they can’t lose. If they fail then America falls. A bunch of puppets supporting their metaphoric anti-Christ.
I’d recommend a history lesson
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist."
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
"WELL REGULATED"
Yep. Not un-regulated.
The number of Americans who are manifestly and dangerously ignorant of the history of their own country is quite alarming.
Americans’ ignorance quite alarms Aussies? [grin]