2nd A
The 2nd amendment doesn't bestow the right to have guns, because the people already have that right(that's why it says -"the right of the people...shall not be infringed"). The founding fathers considered the right of a person to be able to defend himself to be inalienable and were quite familiar with the results of a weapons for the elite(nobility) only policy. As gentlemen of intellect and property, some may have considered it a courtesy not to be armed(at least openly) at certain occasions, but not in the farthest reaches of my imagination do I believe that the overwhelming majority would have accepted the absurd(to them at that time) idea of not being able to possess a gun. The typical blissninny and pandering politician's deconstuction of the 2nd A is a crock of a most foul and corrupted crap the smell of which is the only real force of argument they can produce. The "militia " part is in there to reassure the various states that they will not be at the mercy of a conniving federal government which might attempt by circumvention to de facto prohibit them from assembling an armed force upon need.
What I really don't get about this all, though, is why "gun deaths" are so high profile, when, from what I read, if we "paint by numbers" , so to speak, there are other agents of death more urgently in need of attention. Medical errors come to mind, as do auto accidents, not to even get into what kind of tally is racked up by the stress of living in the inhumane society we have become. Once again, it's a matter of some clown trying to get over by convincing the herd that he or she can actually do something about the problem by passing a law-doesn't matter what the trouble is; just make another law to the point where we are all owned body and soul by the new nobility. And that seems to be just where the crowd wishes to go and belongs.