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The first ten amendments to the US Constitution is not a Bill of Needs, it is a Bill of Rights.

The Second Amendment addresses not the individual citizen's Need to Keep and Bear Arms, but the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The 'need' occurs in the first phrase: 'A well-regulated militia being necessary....'

The founders intended for citizens to arm themselves with weaponry equivalent to that issued to common individual soldiers. In the eighteenth century, it was a Kentucky rifle; in the nineteenth, a lever-action .30-30; in the twentieth, an AR. When somebody invents a Phaser and it's issued to soldiers, that's what we'll keep and bear.