The Second Amendment had its roots in events back in Great Britain, events still very fresh in the memory of American Colonials, particularly those of Scottish descent.
The Kingdom of England absorbed the once independent Kingdom of Scotland in 1707.
Parliament followed that by passing the Disarming Act of 1716 to prevent any Scot ideas of renewed independence from England.
In 1746 Parliament upped the ante on violations of the Disarming Act by sentencing guilty Scots to indentured servitude in the Colonies.
The Colonial Americans not only knew this history, some had direct experience with it. And they weren’t going to give another ruler the power to disarm them.
There is also the long forgotten (in America) Declaration of Right, of 1689, a precursor of our own Bill of Rights of a hundred years later. The DoR 1689 limited the powers of the King, and one of its points prohibited the King from stripping citizens of their arms.
Great post. No wonder the left has destroyed American History as a requirement to graduate FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!