They’re going to pick us off one or a handfull at a time.
After they fire the first shots, WE are absolved from further obedience. That’s why WE may NOT shoot first.
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke
(taken from http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/07/vanderboegh-internet-introduction-to.html)