You hit on a good point. Why haven't more gun fanatics "petitioned their Govt. with firepower"? That is what is missing in this debate. They keep saying they want to, but never do. We could settle this once and for all if they just put their lives where their mouth is. Could they really be just cowards and "chickens" who need guns to build their egos?
Well, we haven't exactly come to the "breaking point" just yet.
The second SS troopers go house to house searching property for guns is when your government will get a bullet in the brain.
It's not "doomsday" just yet, however there is a word - it's called: precedence and what these scared little snot nosed idiots are doing in DC is playing with that word.
I suppose congress could write all the laws they want - that doesn't mean I, or anyone else has to abide them. Laws are useless unless they're enforced. Until they're enforced there would be no need to fight.
No matter how much progressives want to destroy the Bill of Rights - they need people (or Nazi's) to do their bidding and I don't see those who are capable of doing their bidding doing it..
Do you really think the military or local law enforcement will actually partake in tyranny???
I'm not at all concerned about the gun debate nor do I believe the government would ever attempt to take guns, however it's the symbolism or the mere suggestion that they do take guns away that really pisses people off.
With that said, if they want the guns then they're more than welcome to try and take them via force - oh yeah - no one will.
If Giffords, Clinton, Jackson, Pelosi et al want my guns then they can come take them away from me themselves - that goes for every tyrannical anti-Second Amendment progressive out there. The notion you think you have the manpower to do so is absolutely laughable.
The real ego-minded fools are the ones in The Beltway who live their prissy rich lives, who have never held a gun in their lives and who sit there and believe they're aristocrats who try to play mommy or daddy to 300,000,000 US citizens, and who ironically have armed guards and who ironically believe they can somehow intimidate gun owners with government employed mercenaries (FBI,military, local law enforcement etc) and nonsense legislation - that if passed - would be tyrannical - not to mention legislation that would be ignored by state and local governments and potentially the majority of our military.