Subject: Re: Another Win For President Trump
I have read the relevant Papers. That's not quite what it says. It says the militia is drawn from the citizenry. But it isn't necessarily the whole citizenry, hence the term "well-regulated" in the 2A. A mob is not "well-regulated".

You're applying "regulated" incorrectly. It doesn't mean "some rule a government flunky wrote" in that context.

At any rate, let's hear it from James Madison in Federalist 46:

https://founders.archives.gov/...

Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the state governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield in the United States an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.

And how is this possible, you might ask?

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprizes of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Indeed. Can't have the proles hold any real power, which is what the debate over 2nd Amendment is really about.