Explain.
To which I respond:
This duty is higher than one's own personal survival or selfish interest. It may in fact require the sacrifice of one's own life. That is why the Declaration concludes with these noble words: "We pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Honor and duty are superior to rights and self-interest.
Such men exist. Such men have always existed.
They want the guns because they want to operate a gulag. Whose life has any value then?
If we're going to die anyway...