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Nope. It was intended to facilitate national defense as an alternative to a standing army (which the founders were against having on principle), not defense AGAINST the government.
Even if that WAS the intention, anything that civilians are allowed to own is styrofoam pebbles compared to the armaments of most local police departments, let alone the most overfunded military in the history of mankind.
Nope. That's a false dichotomy. It's simply not true that firing handguns at the grotesque might of the US government is the only alternative to doing literally nothing.
I had never quite realized just how much the second amendment was basically: we might need an army at a moments notice, certainly allowances of weaponry would be appropriate, even the organization of militias. And I don't know if the founding fathers or anyone back then could have imagined what the human population would grow to in a few centuries. This rule could never have accounted for a population of over 300 million, without even accounting for cultural and psychosocial alterations of time and technology. Back then maybe a militia could have effected a coup, but today it would be hopeless even if a large number organized they would be caught in surveillance dragnet and/or egregiously overmatched. Makes me feel like it should be harped on more that the second amendment in present context is too often misrepresented.
Stop skipping over the part where it says "being necessary to the security of a free State". If the government infringes on our freedoms, like it currently is, the second amendment absolutely applies. It's a deterrent to threats both foreign and domestic.
Yet again, you're wrong. You can't just vote out the corruption. As seen in how many decades, where the corruption has become more and more rampant, and unchecked?
You should maybe learn about the civil war and the American revolution, where we literally fought and killed for the betterment of our country.
So when are you picking up your arms and doing something about it?