[Centurion2000]

The first time the government could own a weapon a private citizen couldn't own, the Second Amendment became a fairly empty symbol.

70 million gun owners against a military of less than a million ..... they'd never stand a chance if the government pushed it to that.

[ChemistCat]

I don't see all tyranny as being some kind of Armageddon in which everyone chooses sides and everyone is involved.

Tyranny breaks out against households, against individuals, against churches, against relatively weaker minorities. Hitler didn't decide to kill all the Catholics. He took on the Jews. Reno didn't take on Castro--she took on the weaker, easier target. (Booting Castro could have freed a lot more than one child.)

See the Jason Parker saga in Utah if you want another ongoing example. What good are our Second Amendment "rights" when they take us on one family at a time? Whether or not the kid should have chemotherapy, the state is definitely tyrannizing that family.