Has anything really changed?
The way that the 'situation' is described today:
We are now, it is all too clear, entering into uncharted territory.... These unsettled times in this uncharted territory include all matters of morality and legal systems, of politics and economics and, of course, of geopolitics and the military situation, including the so-called war on terror. What we have seen just in the last 30 days or so is a dramatic affirmation of discontinuity rather than continuity. We’re now living in times that are so unsettled and for that matter unpredictable that it is hard to know exactly what we’ll face tomorrow or, for that matter, even later today.
The way that the 'situation' was described on December 15, 1791:
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.
The need for, and source of, "security" is clear. We are fighting the same enemy today that our forefathers were fighting in the 18th century.
/fl