Originally Posted by
Rocket
You seem to understand that backwards.
Well regulated doesn't mean disarmed. Quite the opposite.
The federal government was to be unarmed, the founding fathers knowing how terrible it was for the king to have every weapon imaginable, and the people few or none. This is understood in the Constitution, and of course nowhere in the document is the federal govt given the power to have an army. And all powers not specifically listed therein are prohibited.
So no army for the feds.
Instead, each state was to have and maintain a militia, made up of the ordinary citizens. In time of crisis, the president would have to "ask" state governors to send troops to fight.
And because these militias would need to come together and fight as one, and do so effectively, it was imperative that they all be well trained, to a common standard, and of course be well armed.
This is what is meant by well regulated.
And of course even here, the regulating is being done at the state level, as the states are who have the militias.