I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means, nor do I subscribe to the idea that they are going to come door to door taking weapons and each individual needs to be armed to fight them off, but when a government exerts its power to the point of becoming oppressive how do you stop it? Pitch forks and spades? Do you believe that the gov't of the U.S. can never reach the point of oppression that it needs to be overthrown? I'm not advocating that it needs to be done now, or even in any of our lifetimes, but that time may come sometime in the future and the rights that grant us the ability to do so need to be preserved. It's one of the founding principles of this country.