Yes, sort of like the heating up of those beams in the towers that we spoke of last year after the horrific 911 events. Socially, culturally, ideologically ... our nation is "heating" up slowly like that. The pillars holding it together (and the 2nd amendment is one of them) are slowly being weakened. There are enemies who know this and are hastening it IMHO.
I believe that only a watershed event (and 911 had the opportunity) that fosters an almost miraculous "rivial" like spirit that sweeps the country ... awakening morality, faith and common sense ... can keep it from happening.
Coming events could very easily bind us together as a nation, or tear us apart. There is no way to tell at this point, but sometimes I feel like a beach comber watching a tsunami approach.