Actually, Kent, I think the Constitution probably should be amended in that regard, because there is simply no way of recreating the militia of the 1770s in our present day society...unless you were to have a total social revolution here comparable to the Russian Revolution in 1917 or the French or American Revolutions in the 1700s....in other words, a complete overthrow of the existing order in the USA and its replacement with something radically different.

We have a largely urban and suburban society now of sedentary people who are devoted to consumer goods and shopping and TV and fast food, most of them have never even handled a gun in any useful survival way, and those people are utterly incapable of forming the sort of civil defense militia alluded to in the Constitution, and they are utterly uninterested in doing so anyway. They want to buy CDs and go to movies, for god's sake, not go out and hunt for their supper or defend their local municipality! They expect the police to do that for them while they watch "American Idol".

That's how unrealistic it is to expect those lines in the US Constitution from the 1770s to apply to our lives now. It's a pipedream. A fantasy. It's sheer nonsense.