I have been taught that this amendment was sought by several states after they felt that the new Federal Constitution would take away their rights to have a state militia. In my opinion, and the opinion of many constitutional scholars, this article protects the rights of the states to have militias. If our founding fathers meant to guarantee the right of the people to own guns, they would have stated explicitly that right, instead of referring to a well-regulated militia. We need laws that will penalize adults who allow children access to firearms. We need to stop the killing of our children, by our children.
Laws are part of the solution.
They do much more harm than any imagined good, and should be outlawed. The government's inability to stop crime, the unwillingness to teach gun safety to children, and their liberal reasoning, is all shifting the problem of crime with guns over to the gun manufacturers and distributors. They bring gun victims in the courts to testify that guns are evil instead of good. They say guns will do us no good in the homes, they'll only get us in more trouble. How silly a statement like that sounds.