Quotes That Say It All

Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit stated in Silviera v. Lockyer that "tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people." Calling the Second Amendment a "doomsday provision," Judge Kozinski warned that assuming you can never lose your freedom "is a mistake a free people get to make only once." Those were the framers' concerns when they wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights.

The Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights. That in itself is a strong argument against those that say it was only for the creation of militias in the time of war.