"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."

this is one of the multiple versions of the 2nd amendment... other than the phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed", nothing else is being quoted from that passage much...

where is the militia? we have national guard. we have military branches. they are already armed... do we have a different "well regulated militia"? I have to dig it up, but a few years back Sarah Palin has DISARMED a small Alaskan militia... i need to do a google search, to see the reasoning...

if only a part of the amendment is still valid and the other part is not valid, we need to pass another amendment rectifying the issue. if the whole statement is valid, than we should stick to it... but as it was written in XVIII century and stands, it does not have much bearing on XXI century...

I already mentioned earlier - the State very cleverly has deflected the idea of people correcting the course of the State gone rogue to the criminals and self-defense... as a rogue state would do to self-protect