[Hardastarboard]

However, the second amendment is all about offering the Constitution a reset button. If all else fails, or if the country can't be defended by its conventional forces, the American people will always be well armed in order to defend themselves and their rights.

Bingo! And, as Jefferson and Franklin made perfectly clear in the Declaration of Independence, no one in their right mind pushes that button unless they just can't take it any more.

[risk]

Well put. The Declaration of Independence is an exercise in describing how every other solution besides violence should be tried before resorting to revolt.