“The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” — Thomas Jefferson
Yes, that’s the quote. (Like I said: I was paraphrasing, as I couldn't’t remember the exact language.)
The pols seem to forget that maxim. Also, the gun-grabbing left always seem to forget (or, maybe they never knew) that their heroes JFK and Hubert Humphrey both said that at the heart of the Second Amendment was the prospect that the American People might one day have to fight their own government because it became too tyrannical.