Today's History Lesson: the 2nd Amendment was written at the insistence of slave owners. It had NOTHING to do with protecting us from invasion, it as all about keeping slaves in check. "Maintaining local control of the militia as a slave patrol outweighed concerns about standing armies 'by a factor of at least ten to one'. The hyperbole is the point: as Bogus sees it, there was no confusion among the founders that when southern politicians, like 1/2