Has any one actually read the Second Amendment?

It is quite simply worded, “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.”

This has nothing to do with collecting guns, using gun for personal protection, nor hunting.

It seems to me the founding fathers were saying a militia (an army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers) is needed to insure a free state.

That we the citizens of this country will be well armed and able to maintain our own freedoms. That we will not be subservient to a government that no longer places its citizens first. One where the politicians place their personal gains ahead of the country's well being.

While these mass murders in the news are horrible they are committed by an extremely small percentage of the citizens, yet our government would have us believe that they must disarm us all to make us safe.

Just look at what happens when unarmed citizens become unable to defend themselves from tyranny;
the history books are full of these tales and this is the very thing the founding fathers were trying to protect us from!

James Hankins lives in Lucerne, Calif.