If some of you folks took the time to do a little research on 2nd amendment, you would come across dozens and dozens of letters between various political factions who formulated the amendment. They all agreed that the wording " a well regulated militia" referred to a government agency that had, (historically) become uncontrollable or under the control of an dictator or similar. The individual right to bear arms was an effort to offset this military power and never let it get the upper hand in this country as it had all over the rest of the world.