It is a command to government: you will not disarm the people. You will not control their arms. You will not regulate them into submission. The right was not written for hunting. It was not written for sport. It was written so citizens could defend themselves, not only from criminals, but from the very government under which they live. History is clear. Governments drift. Governments expand. Governments corrupt. The Founders studied that history. They had lived it. They refused to build a nation where the people would be helpless in the face of superior force. They did not intend for citizens to be armed with symbolic tools while the state held overwhelming power. They understood that a free people must never be reduced to inferiority in their own defense. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is a structural safeguard against tyranny.