The second amendment is nominally there to allow people to form state militias in case the United States get invaded.

I want to add to this, because it's never mentioned.

As with most problems in the world (prove me wrong), it can be traced back to British colonialism. The British usually disarmed everyone in their colonies, but American colonists were allowed to have guns and form militias because they were actively forcing Natives off their land.

Basically everyone had guns or access to them, and every colony had militias. Without them, there's no chance the colonists could have then taken on the strongest empire in the world.

So now the line is that we need guns to fight tyranny, or whatever.

But... We did that. We won. We have a "democracy" now. We rounded up or killed all the Natives and fulfilled our Manifest Destiny™️. We have the most powerful military in the fucking visible universe.

Does my dumbass alcoholic neighbor Randy really need an AR to fight the gubmint?