Reviewing the Second Amendment "Right"

In 1789, the Constitution was amended to include what we refer to the Second Amendment (in the Bill of Rights):

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.

One should note the entire amendment. It is not a two-part amendment separating a well-regulated militia from the peoples' right to bear arms. The sentence uses commas, not semi-colons. The point of the amendment is "the security of a free State." The "State" does not refer to those 13 former colonies, but the Nation - i.e. the United States of America.

How do we know? Because the militia went out under the leadership of President George Washington to put down the Whiskey Rebellion - to enforce the Law. This intention was also made evident by the United States when it undertook to preserve the Union during that unpleasantness we sometimes call the Civil War.

The Second Amendment was not included to empower the people and prevent the government from getting too big for its britches. The intent, in fact, was the opposite: to empower the government to put down and survive rebellion(s)!

The Second Amendment was added to the Bill of Rights and intended for the southern Slave States in order to help them suppress any Slave Revolts a la Spartacus. It was rooted in both national and state defense needs - NOT for the needs of individual persons.

The intent of the Amendment has clearly been to preserve order and suppress rebellion - particularly black rebellion.

The NRA, when I was growing up, was an educational organization with an educational focus. Since the 1960s, though, it has changed its focus from education to Deifying Firearms and "supporting and preserving" the 2nd Amendment. One might ask why, and one might note, coincidentally, the changes taking place in the 60s. The civil rights movement scared red-necks and (primarily poor) white people wherever blacks began to be getting "uppity" and demanding rights and respect.

The NRA began to feed off this fear, profited mightily from it, and continues to stoke the fires of fear.

The Second Amendment has never been in danger of being repealed. While machine guns and certain other weapons have been limited (remember the gang wars of the 20s and 30s?), no one has ever worked to eliminate any American's right to own a standard firearm (handgun, hunting rifle, shotgun, or sporting gun).

It is the Excess of firearms and the Easy Access to them that has created a problem unlike any we have faced before as a Nation.

That's the matter we need to address. Not whether or not we should have firearms or what kind. How do we protect our nation from lawlessness that firearms exacerbate?