Should the 2d Amendment be amended to remove the confusing first phrase?

Absolutely ! It works don’t frig with it!

Leave it alone... it works, don’t fix it!

Open up a Constitutional amendment conference and there is no guarantee of what will result. They don't have to merely address what you

Nope.

Guns in the hands of the wrong people seems to be the problem. Look up and read about how many people are killed each year on our roads and highways the numbers are astonishing. There is no talk about taking away cars from people.

The Second Amendment, as ratified, reads:

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

To shed a proper light on the intent, we can look at it as a form of resolution, thus:

Whereas, A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
Therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

No - it is clear. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Comma's between them. Until the Cold War at the beginning of the Nuclear Age, we used extemporized forces. Our Whig beginnings had us fearful of a large standing Army. That was the tool of the Monarchs and dictators to rule the people. The Bill of Rights are prohibitive in nature. They restrict what the government can do. That protects us from the over reach. Any attempt to alter it will not be what anyone thinks.

there is no confusion,despite dc deciding that state militias were somehow reserves,we saw the fail on that when the az gov. tried to mobilize them,and Bill Clinton overrode him,we nearly had a battle,on I17.the Militia is all able body males 18-45 veterans till 65,under command of the state government.NOT THE FEDS.SADLY THIS is more important now then ever.as we have factions in dc openly trying to create unrest.I will only speak for myself,I took an oath,6 times,to defend the CONSTITUTION as it was written not as i wish it said.Im stand there.

Now after reading a bit, I wish I had never engaged in this conversation. We run this one down every few months wrapped in a different wrapper. There was one here, in a different conversation on this topic who provided the links to the appropriate government-supplied definition of the term militia encoded into our Code of Federal Regulations which very clearly and emphatically identifies the militia as a grouping of individual citizens under arms which were completely separate from any government military command. Dear sir, if you are within the sound of my plea, please quickly post that link here ASAP to shutdown this waste of time trying to convince through our own arguments those who do not know what militia means in the 2nd amendment. Don't take our word for it, take federal law for it.

It ain't broke, so don't fix it. I don't say that just off-the-cuff either, because to amend any part of the constitution requires a constitutional convention. During such convention people have the opportunity to change any part, not just the one part that triggered the convention. So it could result not only to a change to the 2nd amendment that some people think would be positive, but also to changes in other articles that would be negative. We have had a number of changes over the last 220+ years, mostly good, but that could change in a big way. Back to the 2nd amendment, if we remove the first phrase about a well regulated militia, we remove the proof positive that the amendment is about tyranny or threat of hostile invasion, and not about heading off to elk camp each fall. We already have enough ignorant people, even among gun owners and even two or three that might be NRA members that agree, foolishly, with the liberals who try to make it about hunting so they can reasonably take your gun rights away, except during hunting season, and by the way if it's not a classic muzzle-loading deer rifle you have no need for one, etc., etc., etc. right out of the handbook of Handgun Control Inc. Then once they decide it is an atrocity for you to kill and eat Bambi, you will have nor further need of that muzzle-loader either. And that is how a nation is disarmed.