JPFO Defends Criticism of NRA: ? Clearly, you fail to
understand why the Second Amendment was written. While it’s
become popular to say it has nothing to do with duck hunting -
and that’s true as far as it goes – very few people understand
that it has nothing to do with defending yourself from muggers,
burglars, or rapists, either, although that’s a surely welcome
side-benefit. The Second Amendment was written specifically to
ensure that the people would always possess the physical means to
intimidate the government, to keep it in line, or, failing that,
to overthrow it at need and, as Jefferson wrote in the
Declaration of Independence, “provide new guards for their future
security”.

http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-leo-straight.htm

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !