The Bill of Rights protects the individual from the Will of the Majority.
And who enforces the Bill of Rights? The President? The courts? The congress?
"If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition AND THE WILL TO USE IT (emphasis supplied - MBV), Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."
Aaron Zelman, one of the founders of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership