In regards to the concerns some have voiced over the tone of this thread (and I imagine #5947 & #5954 from me).
Is it a bad thing for the govt to fear us? I don't think so - it keeps them less corrupt (I was going to say honest but that won't happen without examples).
If England feared the Colonists - there never would have been a Revolutionary War, they would have compromised.
If Germany feared Russia they never would have invaded and England would be speaking German.
You get the idea.
You have 400K pissed off gun owners, lets say 20K are active (now using the lefts numbers that islam is only 10% radical as a baseline and that isn't a problem to admit refugees) how do you like your chances for getting all 2,000 'radical' gun owners before they respond in kind?
We are students of history, we know how this works and the progression.
The Jews weren't rounded up as soon as Hitler came to power, they were marginalized, registered, demonized, stripped of rights, then carted off. We gun owners know that the next phase for us is carted off - AND WE AREN'T GOING WILLINGLY.
If you return to us what is ours (ALL OF IT - the 2nd) and leave us in peace, we will leave you in peace. Most of us have seen military service unlike our 'leaders', we know what hardship is. We don't want to re-live that part of our lives - but if you force us, we will. Not because of our bravado or smugness, for our kids. We want our kids to live free - not as serfs existing on what is allowed to them by the state.
So here we are, the AG has decided to make most of us 'felons in waiting' - when all we did was follow the law. Why are we going to do that anymore?