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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1359678" data-attributes="member: 14668">1. The Militia Act of 1792 was written almost 20 years after the Bill of Rights so it is irrelevant.2. The Founding Fathers distrusted standing armies and believed that an armed populace was an additional check and balance against a tyrannical government.3. There was no modern system of communication, or law enforcement as we understand it today, so any situation requiring an armed response was dealt with by the local militia, who were comprised of armed civilians. They couldnt call 911 and wait for a nanny state government to protect them like you do, they had to take that responsibility on themselves.4. If the intent of the Second Amendment was only to preserve the right of militia members to keep and bear arms, then it wouldnt have declared that the right belongs to THE PEOPLE.</blockquote>