madison wrote the second amendment, in fact he wrote most of them. so yea, in a sense he is.
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
No amount of whining, crying, or lying from the anti-gun loons will change that.
in madisons own words it was for protection of the individual and protection against the federal government as well. he was trying to prevent the tyranny he and all of the founding fathers had experienced at the hands of the monarchy. he also clearly intended the citizens be armed as well and with equal equipment as the central army. he also clearly stated ther were to be organized by themselves with leaders chosen by themselves. Not regulated by the government
"The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition. Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and it would not be going too far to say that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to my best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves." James Madison, The Federalist Papers 46.
