You are trying to split hairs. Self protection is protection from tyranny. Go back to school.
WRONG, Code Toad, and you deceive yourself. When sheer government tyranny removes all guns from criminals’ hands — it will also remove all guns from YOUR hands because you have already agreed that if criminals don’t have guns, then the 2nd Amendment is obsolete because the Founders said it was for self-protection. And since when are police officers and American military “criminals”?