Many Americans seem worried that their government will attack them unless they are festooned with weapons Why?

Since the murder by firearms rate is 10 times that of other countries without guns the NRA cronies need to put whatever spin they need to justify their precious guns. The reality is nobody is worried about protecting themselves from the government and furthermore, a handgun would hardly be effective against mortar, tanks, planes, helicopters and grenade launchers. It's a ridiculous premise

Because every government that takes away the weapons of the free citizens is a tyranny, and besets their citizens.

”[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

~James Madison

”The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

~Alexander Hamilton

”The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.”

~James Earl Jones

”A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”

~George Washington

”Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone … to resist the first approaches of tyranny.”

~Elbridge Gerry

”Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”

~Sen. Hubert Humphrey

Nazi Germany, China, Russia, Cambodia, Iran, Egypt just to name a few prove your argument is stupid. Checks and balances can't hurt. Besides it's my right to own firearms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment...

The only reason why the government doesn't attack, arrest, and imprison the masses is that they all pay their taxes. But there will be a day when millions of people refuse and the army will be called in.

Prediction!!!!

IT's because of tha GEEEEEEEE OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! And all the smarmy political people who use smarmy political phrases