You are right though, this is for real. This is for Keeps. And pinning our hopes of restored freedom are not going to come from some improbable series of events with todays electorate. Quite often the Best "solution" to a problem would be for government to butt the hell out. If government WON'T "butt the hell out", well... those Founding Fathers wrote that one in there as well. The 2A and optional Rule .308.
With the current, continuing, relentless onslaught of legislation, and now the capitulatory silence from the USSC bench sitters, the cartridge box may very well be the only way for us to restore our Republic. History, as I keep pointing out on these threads, shows this may in fact BE the only way. No one before, going back to Rome, has ever broken the cycle that de Tocqueville pointed out.
The Founders rebelled against the King for less than what we put up with daily. The system is FUBAR. Time to start over again. Maybe write a clause into the Constitution that any legislator writing a law repugnant to the Constitution, or a justice trying to create one from thin air, will be considered a hanging offense.
Maybe that would hold them off for a couple hundred more years.
Well, we each have to make our own judgements on that. It sounds like you've passed the point at which you think it's necessary to resort to violent revolution. I don't think we're there yet. I don't think it is fore-ordained by history that we will ever get there.
Obviously one of us is wrong. I sincerely hope you are the one who is wrong, because violent revolution in this country is not going to be pretty. It will be bloody and destructive, and at the present time it probably won't succeed. Most people in this country believe that political changes can be accomplished through peaceful processes, and they are not going to accept or support a violent revolution.