I guess, Seagoon, what you are saying is, that the constitution is...outdated, for lack of a better word.
I agreed with everything in your post. Demographically, technologically, This is not the U.S. of 230 years ago. Technology and culture in the U.S. have changed dramatically. Also, population has surged to the point where it strains our economy. We have many factors which make it difficult to be the kind of Americans that the founding fathers' were. But, I think that the same things which prompted the 2nd to be included in the constitution are looming even darker in the background. Threat's to U.S. citizens' are as real today as they were in 1776. They just don't take the same form. Anyway, I figure that if the 2nd did'nt get canned during the Civil War, it never will.