Where is this ? It ' s a good , good thing . The hospital does all it can but I feel it is heavily under resourced for mental health . <| sep |> Let ' s back it up here for a second no pun intended ! . The question of why the Second Amendment is part of the Constitution is theoretically an empirical , historical one . The reason the Second Amendment is in the Constitution is not just a vessel for anyone imposing their own views of why private individuals should be allowed to own guns on the document and attributing their idea to the Founders . That said , there are often many different reasons why a particular provision was included in the Constitution . Many of them were about forging a document which everyone at the Constitutional convention could agree on . Some of the particular provisions were supported on a multiple alternative grounds . Some would say that the Second Amendment is there to make sure that the government wouldn ' t need to rely on a large standing army for national defense indeed , we didn ' t have a large standing army until the Cold War . Others would say it was about making sure that the citizens could resist the government if it ever became tyrannical . Still others would say that it was about making sure that Southern states would be able to raise militias to put down slave rebellions . Frankly I ' m not so sure about any of these , especially because the Bill of Rights didn ' t initially apply to the states . The United States federal government couldn ' t take away your gun rights or force your to convert to Methodism , but the State of Georgia could because the Bill of Rights didn ' t apply to the actions of state governments until after the Civil War .