In the society of the time most men carried guns openly and without restriction, primarily for hunting, secondarily for personal protection. In any time of sudden emergency, such as an Indian raid or some other form of war breaking out, it was expected that one could immediately mobilize almost the entire male population as a well-armed militia for community defence. That was simply taken for granted on the American frontier. That was reality back then.

And THAT is why that amendment was put in the Constitution and why it was worded the way it was. To pretend that nothing has changed in the last 230 years is just asinine.

We do not have a society now that even resembles the situation that prompted those men to write that amendment as they did.

People now are just using the 2nd amendment to push whatever special interest suits them. That is opportunism on their part, not loyalty to constitutional ideals.