Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

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.

I am sure in that 1791 after just gaining independence and with only a army reduced in strength to 800 men, to protect settlers and fight Indian wars in the Northwest Territory ;and without a standing army for the protection of this uncertain union of heretofore separate states, it makes sense that we would not want to impede the well regulated ready guards from these states. Having no armories, it makes sense not to infringe on the ability of that well regulated ready guard to quickly rally and arm it’s self. 

But as I sit here today, looking at the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, as well as the National Guard, and as I watch as we fight two wars and deploy troops around the globe, I can’t help but wonder what will regulated militia are these NRA gun nuts members of? Surely no well regulated militia outside of the official branches of the military is needed.

I don’t advocate taking any law abiding citizen's gun away, but to resist any effort to make us all safer from gun violence by registration and licensing guns is not, in my opinion, infringement.