If you want to oppose the government do it legally. Don’t resort to intimidation and murder. That’s exactly what a terrorist does.
I will protect myself against unlawful acts by anyone, however, even government.
It's not intimidation to let a criminal know that you intend to defend yourself.
Or to let government know you won't comply with an unconstitutional law.
/johnny
Is that what you would have advised the founding fathers, in 1774?
You don't think much of God given rights, but you are right there to support government, and the establishment.
/johnny
Federalist 28
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa28.htm
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
Federalist 46
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole. The same combinations, in short, would result from an apprehension of the federal, as was produced by the dread of a foreign, yoke; and unless the projected innovations should be voluntarily renounced, the same appeal to a trial of force would be made in the one case as was made in the other.
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.
“If you want to oppose the government do it legally. Don’t resort to intimidation and murder. That’s exactly what a terrorist does.”
Actually, terrorists attack the civilian populace, not the government entities. The goal being to change the form of government via pressure from the people, rather than by direct application of force of arms against the armed forces.