The right to keep and bear arms in one’s home as part of a well ordered militia is to prevent Federal abuse of individual states. The amendment does not protect keeping military style assault weapons for the purpose of personal security or home defense. It does not protect the use of assault weapons for the purposes of domestic terrorist acts, murder, criminal activity, vigilante acts, protests, intimidation or threats. It does not protect the use of assault weapons except in cases where a well ordered militia is needed for protection of the individual states, not individual persons.
The NRA, gun nuts, gun lobbies and their politicians all react violently whenever gun laws are discussed. Their belief is that one tiny gun restriction will lead to all gun ownership rights being removed. Whenever there is a mass shooting, they are silent.
An assault weapons ban is not erasing the second amendment, is not removing all gun ownership rights and will not make all guns disappear like magic. An assault weapons ban is the right thing to do to make them harder for mass shooters to get them. That’s the right thing to do. To do nothing but offer condolences, thoughts and prayers is not creating a more perfect union.
Individuals’ rights are not protected by the second amendment. People of the states as part of a well regulated militia are protected by the second amendment. The courts will need to make this clear.