Another article about the founding father who wrote the most about the Second Amendment, Tench Coxe
http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/tench_coxe.pdfHere's the best quote:
"The power of the sword, say the minority of Pennsylvania, is in the hands of
Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for THE POWERS OF THE
SWORD ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE YEOMANRY OF AMERICA
FROM SIXTEEN TO SIXTY. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled
and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be
tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? are they not ourselves. Is it
feared, then that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.
Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other
terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American. What clause
in the state or federal constitution hath given away that important right. . . . [T]he
unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the
people.
A Pennsylvanian, To The People of the United States, PHIL. GAZ., Feb. 20, 1788