A note on the Second Amendment...

The text of the Second Amendment to the Constitution reads thus:

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.

What else does the Constitution say about this militia?

Article I, Section 8:  The Congress shall have the power (15.) to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions; (16.) to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such a part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

And,

Article II, Section 2:  The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States.

This militia, to which the Second Amendment is attached, is explicitly under the control of the Congress (while the states do select the officers and train the troops), and also under the command of the President in times when it is called to serve the nation.

Our Second Amendment absolutists, those dreamers, see the amendment as a protection against the tyranny of the Federal Government, but, aside from language that gives the states certain powers (and duties), the Congress and the President are in charge of this militia.

Again, can we please use common sense with regard to the Second Amendment?  My meaning is this:  The Second Amendment doesn't mean what you think it means; and your fears about what you think will happen if guns are controlled in any way are purely hypothetical.  What is happening right now with guns in the United States is anything but hypothetical.