[alancarp]

I have an honest question, and this might be a reasonable news thread in which to ask it:

The 2nd Amendment, in my view, implies that the right of the public to bear arms constitutes a threat against the government against tyrannical power.

At what point can that right be exercised, and what can that right of threat look like while being exercised? Should we insist that we have a right to remove government official by force, for instance?

Here we have someone arrested merely for loading a shotgun. Does the acceptance of such an arrest blunt the actual purpose behind the 2nd amendment?

[Carry_Okie]

At what point can that right be exercised, and what can that right of threat look like while being exercised?

Up until WWII, the people possessed superior force. Roosevelt dealt a deathblow to that power in 1944, at Yalta. By empowering the Soviet Union as an enemy, the national government instituted a massive standing army. Since that time, the ACLU has enlarged police power via the courts. Hence your question.

[WilliamRobert]

When can we detain a government official?
Anytime you have the numbers and feel skippy enough. It is our God given right outlined in our founding documents to over turn this out of control government. That are very frightened and we out number them a million to one.
Ask yourself how many FEDs and LEOs are there and how many of us. Our shear numbers spook them into intimidation.