If you could write some statement and find some way to provide protection (absolute in nature) from tyranny.....then you wouldn't need the Second Amendment. That's really the long standing problem when you drill down into this whole discussion.
In the 1760s.....tyranny was some statement that you uttered in various ways, after having to deal with the British system of law in the colonies. There just aren't 'protections' that exist....to give you some safe feeling against tyranny.
So we edged through the 1800s...with tyranny always a step or two away (particularly in American western history, or the Civil War period), thinking over what would give us some chance of survival.
As we arrived in the 1900s....tyranny was discussed in various other ways.
If you live in a number of American cities today....tyranny has been replaced by fear of crime or threats. You could be on the way home, and have some wild human creature with the idea of harming you at the gas station or super-market. The Second Amendment is the only protection in this case.
This entire argument....to rid the nation of the Second Amendment? You'd have to go and refer to tyranny, and build something to protect people from that. Good luck on that search.
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