Funny... isn't it a bunch of guys with assault rifles which have turned Afghanistan into a stalemate and Iraq into a hotbed of violence AGAINST the US Army, Marines, AirForce, and Navy? And that's without the guy on the other end of the gun being your next door neighbor/brother/wife/cousin.

Defending against a tyrannical government is the intended purpose of the Second Amendment as is stated by the people who wrote it and the people who ratified it.