By now, there are few Americans who haven’t sat riveted by the news coming out of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion. The media narrative, likely influenced by a healthy dose of propaganda, has nonetheless demonstrated plucky Ukrainians putting guns in the hands of everyone they can and giving one of the world’s largest militaries all it can handle. In fact, some of the most stirring images aren’t brave Ukrainian troops standing against the Russian juggernaut. What’s truly remarkable are the pictures of ordinary civilians taking up arms against the invaders. It’s a reminder of why we’re blessed to have a Second Amendment here in the US. When our Founding Fathers first penned the Constitution, they had just come out of the Revolution. They were fearful of standing armies because they’d seen how such an army could become an instrument of tyranny. They crafted the Second Amendment, in part, as a hedge against invasion, something the fledgling nation had to consider quite seriously. After all, the US wasn’t always the superpower it is today. By preserving the right to keep and bear arms for every American citizen, our Founding Fathers were trying to do precisely what the Ukraine government did this week by