Most of the comments above are circular arguments that seem to be made to re-enforce the beliefs of the commenter, mental masturbation. None of the bible verse or other quoted lines/sources has much to do with the current situation. Far more on target are the comments and writing of men like Michael Z. Williamson, Robert Heinlein, Robert Stirling and John Ross of “Unintended Consequences” fame. You know the book the ATF made threats against people selling it. Self defense does not require justification by the self appointed elites or government drones. It just is, at the point you have to fight to keep yourself and your loved ones alive. At some point the society will reach a cusp, a tipping point like a fluid changes from liquid to solid in a super saturated solution. This “revolution cycle” seems to be a cycle of history, an artifact of human thought and narcissism of greed for power as a means of self aggrandizement. (Think end of the USSR) The over analysis of the current part of the cycle will change nothing and adds nothing to the current debate. Some of you will be on the barricades and some will be hiding under your beds hoping better ruff men (and woman) will prevail. Thus it has always been and shall be. Guns in the hands of general citizens will as a well known Vulcan said, “make it a little less bloody”, in the long run, as the founders intended and understood. Jefferson I think made the comment of watering the tree of liberty with blood, he was not just making a metaphysical comment but a soul deep belief in the cycle of history based on his understanding of the mind of man and its limits.
