There's a good reason why the FF didn't set up a direct democracy in this country. This is an example of it.
Exactly. The FF's set it up so that the people could democratically elect representatives to make laws so that the people wouldn't be saddled with the day to day goings on of governing the country, but instead could enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, whatever that meant to each person.
The Bill of Rights set out some limits on what these representatives of the people could do, in order that the representatives didn't pass laws that would impact the peoples rights and their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One of the peoples' rights which was specifically protected was the right to keep and bear arms, so that the people could form militias to help protect themselves from enemies, both foreign and domestic.
So the FF's left instructions for all government people to follow, that you leave the peoples' right to keep and bear arms alone, and you do not infringe upon the peoples' right to keep and bear arms. I can't believe that this is so hard for so many to understand. But thank God the FF's were wise enough to realize that the people themselves, as a group, could not be trusted with their own liberty, and that their representatives would likewise need some rules to obey so that they didn't follow the majority of their constituents and violate the rights of the minority of their constituents.
This is the Constitutional Republic that has served us pretty well, though it certainly has not been perfect, and has been weakened lately by the people refusing to hold the government accountable when it violates the Constitution.
As Ben Franklin remarked when asked what type of government the FF's had decided upon, "A Constitutional Republic, if you can keep it". We aren't doing so well keeping it, are we?