Absolutely!!!
Another problem with the progressives (democrat-socialists) is that they NEED to include everyone else in their ill-fated experiments in insanity. They need the collective population to "get on board" with them to fund their grand ideas. Ideas detached from common sense, knowledge of human nature, and documented history. And funded with more than money, as we end up paying more than just monetarily. So, they must use forced compliance. They will not hesitate to commission their police state enforcers (who they bought and paid for with tax dollars from unwilling subjects) to implement the very weapons that they want to confiscate from us to enforce that compliance. Contrarily, the quintessential American wants a government that has limited power and stays the hell out of the way.
Pretty much, the US government is supposed to look like what you would expect from paid security or a bouncer in a bar. You want them there so that if anyone decides that they want their fist to occupy the same space as someone else's nose, the bouncer can use force to remove the problem fist. But it's not up to the bouncer to run the place like he sees fit, it's up to the bar owner. The bar owner will enumerate the bouncer's duties and the way in which those duties may be carried out. "We the People" here in the US are the bar owners and our government is the bouncer. The first problem with our bouncer is that he is human. The second problem is that we, the bar owners, have been paying too much money to him and not paying enough attention to what the bouncer has been doing. The bouncer has been putting HIS fist in the same space as some of the GOOD patron's noses for sport and for "shake-downs". He has been grabbing the waitress's ass, going behind the bar, pouring himself drinks, and putting his hand in the till. He has been aided by some of the other bouncers and a few bartenders, and together they have formed a cabal. This behavior has went on for some time with impunity. Now, a few of the bar owners have called the bouncers on the carpet about this behavior and warned that it won't be tolerated. The bouncers, stoned on the liquor that the bar owners have paid for and drunk on the power of own their size as well as the power of their cabal, have decided that their not going to answer to the bar owners anymore. In fact, the bouncers have assumed the position of the owners and now the bouncers are running the place. Now, since the owners can't call Patrick Swayze in to help out, the rightful ownership of the bar will have to be defended somehow. Hmmm, if only their was a way to empower the rightful owners. Wait, there is and it uses gun powder. It is a useful tool that can be used with precision and minimize collateral damage in a crowded bar as opposed to baseball bats and broken bottles. In fact, often just the sight of it will induce peace and quell the threat. As it turns out, the bar owners, upon founding their establishment had heard of this problem of a coup before. And some of the founding members had fled from other establishments where they were mere employees suffering under those same circumstances. So, they decided to form a covenant that would safeguard against this. This covenant included and clearly stated that "the owners" had the "right" to use these "gun powder powered tools" to defend the bar and their covenant if necessary. So, there's a happy ending to this story. The bar owners took back the bar, cleaned it back up, earned back the trust of the patrons, and "Made the Bar Great Again". Now even though some of the bar owners were too spineless and didn't possess the intestinal fortitude to take back the bar, they too now enjoy the peace and profits of the recouped establishment. All thanks to the resolution of the defenders and their covenant. So any spineless ass people who don't appreciate OUR right to defend OUR bar and OUR covenant, just mind your own bar. Or pub, watering hole, etc.
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