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Because that ridiculously romantic notion is completely, totally, ludicrously out of date.
You're not fighting modern military armaments with your Smith&Wesson.
I mean, you're welcome to try.
I wasn't serious. That's why I appreciate the principle, and
only the principle. As much as I'd like to see a successful violent overthrow, it just isn't going to happen. The NRA is obsolete (for the reasons you stated) as an organization for enacting the only principle for gun ownership in which I can see sense; it's remaining agenda serve only to propagate violence, and thus, in an ironic twist of fate, the members of the organization are dressed up fancily with no place to go. Furthermore, I was insinuating that the NRA is probably the
last organization you'd see pitching for a violent overthrow of our current government.
It's more of a "ha! ain't that a *****" sentiment than a "lets get our guns and march on the capitol" kinda deal.
Actually, there is one other principle that I can get on board with for owning guns: collecting and appreciating them as works of art, as one would do with swords. There is a certain beauty of say, my father's collection of world war era mausers and lugers. I'm not sure that's sufficient for deterring gun control but it's there.