The Second Amendment

What is the reason that the writers and ratifiers of the US Constitution included the Second Amendment?

What is its real purpose?
To allow people to defend their families and themselves? Yes.
To just enjoy owning guns? Yes?
For sports shooting? Yes.
To serve as a militia member of one? Yes.
To serve in a fat, middle-aged militia of volunteers that will fight to the death to defend their own and country? Yes?
To allow citizens to assert legally and constitutionally their natural right to keep, bear arms, and not be helpless? Yes.

But do not forget: the primary purpose for the existence of the Second Amendment was due to the determination by the wide, far-seeing Founding Fathers that knew that an armed citizenry was the last, best defense for keeping federal or foreign tyrants like King George at bay.

An armed people are a free people. Keep your Leftist/Fascist hands off of our guns!