In America there is a sizable percentage of patriots who are armed & aware & as noted have the right of self defense.
Note the gungrabbers’ favorite meme: “more and more guns in fewer and fewer hands” meaning gun owners are a shrinking minority that can be dealt with by a `progressive majority’ which BTW exists in the House and nowhere else.
Again I ask, where are the Muslim grooming gangs in America? Where are the rapists preying in city streets here as they do in Germany?
It concerns me that there is no national organization of armed patriots other than the NRA. As for local militias, the saying goes that half the members are FBI or ATF agents, and the other half are informants.
Millions of each of us has his guns, ammo, prepper supplies, reloading equipment, and goes to the range regularly. But how are we to be transformed into a coherent armed force that governments bent on tyranny (CA, NY, NJ, WA, etc.) cannot afford to disregard? I don’t know.
Open conflicts always begin with some sort of signal event that triggers a general call to arms. Different people, in different times and circumstances, resond to triggers unique to them.
It's true that the armed patriotic right is unorganized now, but some triggering event that is unique to us and our times, could cause us to quickly organize ourselves into regional militias.
From there, it would likely take a second, more serious event, to trigger us to stand and face an imminent threat.
I think it all comes down to perceived level of threat. So far, most patriots have not yet perceived a level of threat that warrants organizing militias. There's a strong likelihood that will change, given the ever increasing threats to life, liberty, and country, from the left.