"It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from a enslaved uprising. And it was the way that James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias. And those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts."
MFW dumbasses actually think the slave oligarchs put a "break in case of tyranny" clause into their governing document. The second amendment was about ensuring militia readiness since literally the entire country was frontier territory at the time.
A well regulated militia has not been necessary for the defense of a free republic since 1815 if we're going by actual risk of invasion. Certainly not since WWII when the US officially became the most militarily powerful empire in all of human history just to make the Japanese surrender faster.
Man had to be convinced by his lieutenants to not personally lead the charge to crush the rebels because he was that hopping mad and out for their blood.
