Lol, okay go try that and report back.

I literally agree with you so hard that I now have to rant.

I hear so much bullshit from so-called "patriots" about their willingness to spill American blood to protect our freedoms or whatever... But honestly, I don't see civil war proving to be a very popular political movement. There isn't a sharp enough polarization in society to produce a violent revolution, and Americans are reasonable enough to know that killing our neighbors is by far the worst option for solving our political woes. Sure, American democracy is pretty dysfunctional, but it still exists, and it can still be fixed, and anyone who even suggests that things are so bad that we have to start killing each other is literally retarded.

So whenever I hear a gun owner suggest (without joking) that "this'n here is fer them tyrants 'n sech" I just have to shake my head and ponder the circumstances that led to such astounding ignorance. No, the government isn't going to take your guns. No, shooting Americans when you think they're taking your guns is NOT going to draw the support of our troops. And no, your insurgency isn't going to last very long considering that the American military is going to be way more motivated to exterminate a terrorist cell that exists within the actual United States (compared with a bunch of durka-durkas way the hell over in the mountain wilderness of Durkastan).

Seriously, I'm a lefty, and I think that responsible gun ownership is great. It's fun, it's good for the economy, it's the best way to control animal populations as far as I can tell, and it brings people together in the spirit of friendly competition. What isn't great is people threatening violence against other Americans because they don't want to be forced to buy smaller magazines. If anything, it's that sort of attitude that is causing my lefty peers to grow more vocal in opposing unrestricted gun ownership.

So by all means, shoot the shit out of the guy that, unprovoked, tried to harm you or your family. But until then, people need to stfu with the armed rebellion bullshit.