The Second Amendment made perfect for the time when people owned
simple muskets, which at the time were the state-of-the-art
military weapon and standard issue to the British military.
Some Americans had even more advanced weapons, muzzleloaders
which had a rifled barrel for greater accuracy.  At that time,
those weapons were far more advanced than the clubs, spears and
bows and arrows used 200 years prior to that.  With that in
mind, I am not advocating relaxing current laws on gun control.
More laws and restrictions are not the solution for failure to
enforce the existing ones. We already have appropriate
restrictions prohibiting true assault rifles, machine guns,
heavy weapons, explosive devices and weapons of mass
destruction.  As all of the perpetrators of horrendous and
tragic mass shootings have been mentally-ill or unstable, and
none of them have been responsible, law-abiding citizens, the
obvious solution is to address the mental health care
deficiencies in our society.  We need to develop a societ