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.
According to the above quote, a militia is necessary to secure a free state. Breaking the country down into states, the militia was to protect each state from the tyranny of a central government. Seems some feds don't like the people to exercise their constitutional rights. This after the feds step all over the constitution.
And the part of the militias not being dangerous to the public, that is correct. The militias as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land would only be dangerous to a federal government bent on taking over as supreme leader.
Would the founders of the United States today be called part of the lunatic fringe???
Just wondering?