And if the Founding Fathers sought to guarantee a state's right, no one uttered a word about it. If this Second Amendment safeguarded a collective right, it was the best kept secret of the Eighteenth Century. No known writing from the period between 1787 and 1791 even suggests that a single American even entertained such a notion. Indeed, the collective rights notion is an invention of this century. In fact, the theory is an invention of the gun prohibition movement.
Citizens have no right to form a militia.
Conscientious objectors excepted, citizens have a duty to respond when a duly constituted official organizes a militia. With a tap root in the British common law right of self-defense, the Second Amendment is the right that prevails when, heaven forbid, all else fails. The Second Amendment is more than an affirmation of your right to protect yourself and your family. The Second Amendment marks the property line between individual liberty and state sovereignty. The state can do all it can to assure our corporate safety, but it cannot infringe on our right to personal safety.