That wasn't my point, but you could do away with it with little change in most states. Let the states decide and all that. The point is that the reason for the Amendment was never so the federal government created by that very same Constitution could be overthrown like idiot sovereign citizens and the like believe.
The second amendment acknowledges that human beings have an innate right to self defense and that the "new" central government is bound constitutionally to protect that right. Self defense against what or whom? Against anyone who would try to harm or abuse. That includes a government gone rogue that, oh I don't know, starts to refuse to enforce the law....stops enforcing and protecting the rights of its citizens....starts infringing on citizens' rights....that kind of thing.
James Madison addresses this in Federalist #46:
"Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it.
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.
But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it."
The Federalist Papers were written in support of getting the Constitution ratified, with arguments being made supporting the document itself and the Bill of Rights. I think Madison implies quite clearly here that one purpose of the citizenry being armed is to keep in check and if necessary, overthrow an abusive Federal government.
