Without the 2nd amendment how could the whites have won the west. Imagine that the settlers would have to learn to use bows and arrows or did the Indians have a 2nd amendment too for them only. I think that George knew what lurked out there in the bushes, people trying to protect their teepees and their animals. Maybe we would have to have waited until F16's were invented before the west was won. That probably wouldn't have worked because by then the Indians would have figured out how to own land and register it by then and cowboy and Indian movies would even be less exciting.