Chief Justice Warren Berger on the Second Amendment:

[Warpy]

8. He was right, that piece of shit should have been scrapped when the concept

of state militias was. It soon became apparent that the militia system wasn't going to work, it was mostly an excuse for men to go into town every couple of weeks and hang out in the saloons. It was obvious that a professional military was necessary, although keeping it as small as possible was still a more popular idea than the bloated Pentagon we have now.

White southerners fought to keep it since they were outnumbered by a large population of formerly enslaved and abused people with ample reason to hate the owners.