>>52472238>The 2nd amendment was meant to give the people the power to overthrow the government in case shits hits the fan.Not exactly. When America was being founded it was being drawn up as an anti-imperialist democratic utopia. The founding fathers basically agreed that the new republic shouldn't have a large standing army, because they only reason you'd need one is if you were trying to form an empire. Rather, they reasoned that a 'people's army' quite literally formed from farmers and laborers with rifles would be adequate to fend off any empire that tried to encroach upon them (considering that's relatively close to how the Rev. War was fought).
The idea was basically that the "well regulated militia" would BE the military.
The "right to bear arms against a nefarious government" came much later, after the War of 1812 when America completely abandoned the idea of not having a standing army.