Lol @ people who think their shitty little rifle is going to somehow protect them from the govt./ cops; if they really wanted to they’d just sit their on their iPads launching missiles at your front door!
Lets play your oh so original idea through just for kicks. Their are 3 million plus armed Military, State and Federal law enforcers, (sworn to defend the constitution by the way which includes the second amendment) and only a pesky 320 million Americans that don't want to be fucked with,
Lets look at those numbers again
armed military/civil authority 3,000,000+
civilians that don't want to be fucked with 320,000,000+
with 43% of house holds with guns it's almost as if the writers of the constitution knew the armed civilian population might be bigger than the standing army and civil police forces combined.
But hey if you are dumb enough to believe the Hollywood programming that our Government is comprised of super humans that are gonna just tyrannize an armed populace all of a sudden and missile launch 43% of American homes and not have the other 57% grab pitchforks, baseball bats, torches, etc etc, you see where this is going right?
It is precisely the fact that there is the second amendment that it will never happen and that is why it is there.
This is how rational people look at the world they do not stop thinking when they are told to by a repeating slogan they work out how the world actually works with their own minds they know that there are way too many of us to be afraid of a tyranny of the minority. Another reason it's great that the USA is so huge and has such a huge population, there is no way to centralize power. Pretty easy to take over an unarmed country the size and population of Wisconsin.