text: "The Founders didn’t want guns for duck hunting; they wanted a deterrent against a government which could tax them, search their homes, seize their property ... "
  
  I'd like to be present when that second amendment defense as "the right to overthrow duly elected governments you disagree with" is argued before the US Supreme Court.
  
  The second amendment is an ill-advised long-obsolete prescription for arming and training the late-1700s citizen army of a weak collection of agrarian states.  It has no relevance in today's vastly larger and stronger urban society and is proof that the Founders were human and could make mistakes.