At least in those days there was no Muslim bashing -

Not those English who are English now.

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was heavily influenced by the English Bill of Rights 1689 which restricted the right of the Federal government to interfere with the personal right to bear arms. The Bill of Rights 1689 restricted the right of the monarch to have a standing army and to interfere with the personal right to bear arms. It did not create a new right to have arms, but instead rescinded and deplored acts of the deposed King James II which restricted Protestants rights to have arms whilst at the same time allowing Catholics to keep theirs. The English Bill of Rights firmly established that the right to bear arms was a right within the powers of Parliament to regulate and did not belong to the monarch. Although it was never repealed, those parts of the Bill that refer to the ban on the keeping of standing armies and the right to bear arms, are now considered obsolete. Parliamentary supremacy means that the enactment of subsequent legislation which has created a permanent army owing allegiance to the constitutional monarch [24] and put the ownership and use of certain arms under tight licensing regulations has effectively repealed these laws implicitly.[25] The English Bill of Rights remains important and a part of the English Constitution primarily because it stripped the monarchy of powers and gave more powers and rights to Parliament. A recent decision of the Supreme Court in the United States has taken a stronger view on the personal right to arms and has effectively recognized a personal right to arms, enforceable if needs be and within limits, against the States. Thus English and American legal principles as well as regulations have now diverged quite significantly.
Sir William Blackstone wrote in the eighteenth century, at a time when there were no police or forces of law enforcement, about the right to have arms being auxiliary to the "natural right of resistance and self-preservation", but conceded that the right was subject to their suitability and allowance by law.
"The fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject, that I shall at present mention, is that of having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. Which is also declared by the same statute and is indeed a public allowance, under due restrictions, of the natural right of resistance and self-preservation, when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression."