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...
That's pretty much my attitude too and by what I've read here and many other places; we are by no means alone in that way of thinking.
To back up one step and see it through the eyes of Bill J.; it would also mean losing everything before dying (or surviving) a civil or new revolutionary war with a tyrannical government hell bent on making subjects out of its citizens.
This is the problem with idiots who get elected then think it's their right to tell us what to do. It isn't. Their job is to do what we mandate them to do. Their job is to work for us; not lord over us. Look at the despicable Jihad Squad for instance. The arrogance of those puny nothings to believe they can tell us what we have to do! Heck; all dems are like that now. Hell bent on being our rulers instead of our elected public servants.