At this point in the Trump administration, I have less fear of an overtly tyrannical government forcing its will on an unarmed populace, and more fear of an implicitly tyrannical government being actively helped by an armed populace. There have been multiple conservatives (and, for some reason, religious leaders) talking about how an armed revolt is going to break out if Trump is removed from office (which would only happen by due process of law, in the face of overwhelming evidence of criminal activity).
I don't actually think an armed revolt of any significant size is really gonna happen (I think people like that are probably "all talk, no action," just like Cliven Bundy's family), but if it does happen, the impact of it will be made far more severe for the fact that so many people who are ignorant enough to believe that "the Deep State is staging a coup, so we need to save the duly-elected government from the tyrannical shadow-government," have such powerful and dangerous weapons (without the wisdom to use them for the good and proper purpose that the second amendment intended).
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