The Second Amendment needs modernization

The Second Amendment is still wearing a powdered wig.

“ The founders; certainly Thomas Jefferson, would see merit in giving the citizenry  proper tools for maintaining our freedom against its greatest natural enemy. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion (as Shay's). The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arm ”