You don't know what you are talking about.
Well regulated militia of the People, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be Infringed.
The People are the Militia. Well regulated militia of the People are necessary to the security of a free State; the unorganized miltia of the people, is not necessary to the security of a free State.
Wow you missed the point there by a mile. During the time of the reveloution it became clear that while militia may be just fine against a band of robbers on the road, or a tribe of raiding Indians, they were terrible when it came to fighting against an organized military. So Gen Washington called for the formation of the continental army, which was much more effective...So when the const/BOR was written after the revolution, if the government could keep it citizens more safe using a standing army (the were very worried about a British re-invasion, that did happen in 1812), why did they not just use a standing army instead?
Why were they so afraid of a standing army? Because a standing army is a threat to a free nation. All it would take is one general with the loyalty of half the army, or even a an eight of the army that decides to march on Washington/Philadelphia, and boom, meet your new king (The NATO ally, modern country of turkey just had a coup attempt that was damn near successful) . Or more likely, what happens when the citizens are upset at a law the government made, and the government uses the army to shut the citizens up (we see this ALL the time).
Read the founders words, an unarmed people is not a free people. I don’t understand why people try to insert what they THINK the founders meant by the 2nd when they can just read the founders own freaking words.
Here’s TJ
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." --Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment --Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; ...that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
There’s much much more than this from TJ. I can go on with quotes from Washington, Madison, Paine, Henry, if you wish. But Thomas Jefferson was one of the main authors of the BOR and constitution that was ratified by all the founding fathers (the 2nd amendment didn’t have a lot of debate like all the others).
The 2nd is not about protection of the people, it’s the people protecting themselves, mainly from government, and also foreign entities and whatever else.