Slightly off topic in its entirety, but this article addresses our situation:
"The Second Amendment to our Constitution enshrines the pre-existing and inalienable right to self-defense, so that American citizens would be able to match arms with any would-be tyrant.
A free nation need not bow before a tyrant, nor endure the horror of facing heavily-armed bullies armed with nothing more than cobblestones and courage.
Those who would dismantle our Republic seek to dismantle not just our Second Amendment rights, do so in the hopes that they, too, will one day face nothing more than cobblestones and a handful of obsolete and ineffective arms.
It is our duty as citizens to deny them that advantage."
From this site:
Tragedy in Kiev: An on-going experiment in what happens when rogue government outguns the citizenry