Our Founding Document and the Right to Bear Arms

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

We have the right to overthrow any government that is not securing our rights.  A government that makes clear it wants to disarm citizens is a problem for two reasons:

 1. Without arms, the people will not have the power to overthrow the government.

2.  A government taking active measures to avoid being overthrown is telegraphing that they no longer intend to serve the public interest of protecting the liberty of it's citizens.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We can and should put up with a lot but disarming is a bright red line.  Once disarmed, you've lost the ability to meaningfully resist further tyranny.