The First Amendment is Meaningless Without The Second Amendment

So there. 

In its complete form the Constitution has specific and essential amendments to the original, the purpose of which ostensibly, was to refine and perfect the intent of the original.     These amendments are critical both for the creation of the new society they, the Founding Fathers, wished to create but also to the proper functioning and health thereof.   The document is an expression of hope,  a blueprint for the fulfillment of the dream that was born with the Declaration of Independence,  the solidification of the ideals that made the Revolution, they believed, necessary. 

The first of these amendments involves certain freedoms, among them freedom of speech.    The framers of the Constitution must have witnessed the deleterious effects of the lack of free speech in either their own, or other societies for them to have made this their primary amendment.  Freedom of speech was fundamental to the type of society the they wished to create.   Without it, it would be a different society, one in which they did not wish to live. 

The second amendment insures ability for every citizen the right to "bear arms," citing that a "well-formed militia" is crucial for the security of its citizens.   This, is number two on the list of amendments.   A rather prominent place.   

But why would the framers even bother to create this amendment at all?   Why was it necessary?   And what is the purpose of all this bearing of arms, anyway?   Surely, they did not wish to insure that citizens right to shoot a duck, or enjoy a good challenge of target shooting.  Were these freedoms that King George took away?  

 No, the framers were very clear about the purpose of bearing arms: to insure freedom, and the Blessings of Liberty, as they said, "being necessary to the security of a free State."   Not just to insure those freedoms just delineated in the First Amendment but the generic "Freedom," a State that IS free; the creation of that State that the Revolution was all about:  life, liberty, assembly, a free press,  the pursuit of happiness, and the right of free speech, etc. . . all of them.  

This "Freedom" was, after all, the over-riding object and purpose behind the Revolution itself, and behind the creation of a new state.   All that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution concern themselves with is the definition of freedom and the task of the institution and protection of freedom.

The framers knew that tyrants seek to disarm their citizenry in order to best control them. 
History since then has repeatedly proven them right: Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, etc, all took away their citizens arms before their ability to speak freely.  

Happily, the framer's intent is in no way disputable:

• James Madison: Americans have "the advantage of being armed" -- unlike the citizens of other countries where "the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

• Patrick Henry: "The great objective is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun."

• George Mason: "To disarm the people [is] the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

• Samuel Adams: "The Constitution shall never be construed . . . to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."

• Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."

• Richard Henry Lee: "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
  
  

We see then that the first and second amendments are therefore bound together, inextricably.   They are bound together by a single concept, the preservation of "Freedom."  Again, not just the particular and specific freedoms already mentioned but the generic and all-encompassing concept of a Society that is Free, the Freedom that one seeks as defining a way of life. 

To live in freedom and to enjoy the blessings of liberty.  That is what the Second Amendment seeks to help create, to cause to thrive,  and principally,  to preserve. 

The Founders, the People, could not have made that clearer.