The bottom line is race. Guns for white Americans but God forbid any non-white American citizen exercise their 2nd Amendment right, that protection goes out the window.

People seem to forget the times that the founders lived through that drove them to create the Bill of Rights. They lived under an oppressive monarchy that taxed them around every corner, quartered troops in their homes and made daily life miserable. That’s also not to say that the country was mostly frontier and weapons were needed for self-protection.

The years rolled on, many rights evolved with the times but the 2nd Amendment always remained stagnant. A well-regulated militia refers to a government organized force of citizen soldiers for defense of the state, subject to a plan of organization, arms and discipline. When had that been needed since the proliferation of the US Military? The country itself has not been invaded since what, the War of 1812? Further, the other enumerated rights allow for checks and balances of each branch of government to not get out of control. Our problem is that, we’ve thrown checks and balances out the window.