Man, I love your zeal. That certainly is where all this is heading. Voting and saying the right things on FR hasn’t changed anything. I’m not very old but old enough to see how our side operates. There’s been quite enough go on that should have caused action.
It’s not zeal. It’s a calm, dispassionate estimation of the forces available to the government to implement an intolerable policy.
Note what ten armed, determined terrorists did to Mumbai.
I disagree that “there’s been quite enough to go on that should have caused action.” As the Declaration of Independence states “all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
But you will note, Lexington and Concord was kicked off when the British took steps to disarm the Colonists.
Government taking our means of deposing a despotic government is the line in the sand that can not be allowed to be crossed. The Colonists knew it, and every American worthy of the name knows it.