Almost all of your "founding fathers" were slave owners who would each be immediately cast as villains if they could magically be transported unaltered to the 21st century. On top of that, we are over 200 years remote from them, and, well, to coin a new cliche, times have changed.

I've never been much of a one for accepting the "they were of their time" excuse for people who did bad things that didn't seem so bad in their days, but if that excuse IS proffered I'd say that the same should apply to the second amendment. It's of its time, which means it's outdated and outmoded and seriously needs a rethink (or a ditching). Unfortunately, one of the most powerful lobby groups in your country has, to all intents and purposes, usurped what is a extremely unclear 200-year-old document to their own ends and forced the country to consent to allowing people who have got nothing to do with "militias" to stroll around the streets with a gun in the pocket.

A good, strong democracy should be able to see where its constitution is no longer a good fit and fix it, by consent. But that lobby group of yours is not in any way an integral part your democracy...