The Second Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 

There is a constant debate as to what the right of the people is. Government officials are constantly trying to have the right removed. These officials get it in their mind that this amendment can be retracted or cancelled. Much of their argument is that the Country has a Militia, it is the Armed Services. Well this is not correct. You have to step back in time to put this amendment in the correct context. during the Revolutionary War there was the Army and there were Militias. The Militias fought a stop gap war, a guerrilla war, hitting and retreating, Harassment tactics keeping the enemy off balance. British General Charles Cornwallis, (1st Marquess Cornwallis) considered the Militia a Nuisance but not a combat force. (Farmers with Pitchforks). During actual formal confrontations, the Militia often broke and ran where the army stood and fought. 

So the Militia is NOT the Army. The other part of the Amendment is "necessary to the Security of the State", The militias were not part of the Government force, they were State defense. This brings up the Argument that the National Guard is the State Militia, except that the National Guard becomes the Army on Order from the Government, it is actually part of the U.S. Military. Want to prove this, have a National Guard Unit decline the invitation by the U.S.Government to activate for over seas duty.

The Security of the State is the protection of the State over the Government. Remember, at the time the 2nd amendment was ratified (1791) the revolutionary war was recent history, a tyrannical Government had been over thrown.  The amendment was put in place so that the people could defend themselves against a hostile government. 

So, if the Amendment was put in place to protect it's peoples from a hostile government, foreign or domestic, how can a government remove or amend that right?

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html