 Before he secured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, in his 2015 book, Great Again, How to Fix Our Crippled America, Trump, or his ghostwriter, waxed eloquent about the importance of the Second Amendment. The fact that the Founding Fathers make the Second Amendment second only to our First Amendment, freedom of speech, religion of the press, and the right of assembly in a petition to the government shows that they understood how important the right to bear arms would be for all Americans. You know what the refutation of that is? Why did they need the Second Amendment?