It’s not the government turned against you. You turned against the government which makes you a traitor. Traitors need to be shot. Laws are laws. Laws change. Freedoms change. I don’t remember guns saving your civil liberties during the bush era. How did guns stop the NSA?
In the military and law enforcement, we have something called the "Use of Force Continuum." The idea is that not every threat requires a bullet to the face to resolve, and that one should use the minimum necessary force to resolve a problem. At the lowest end of the continuum is simply presence. This can be as simple as a sign, a barrier, or a uniformed presence. When an officer is watching, people tend to behave themselves.
At the opposite end of the continuum is deadly force. Whatever it is that someone is doing, it is imperative that they be stopped and if the force necessary to do that kills them, then so be it.
Expand this concept to the grand scale of society. What we witnessed was not a failure of firearms. What we witnessed was a failure of the other methods of containing government expansion. The failure of representatives. The failure of the free press. The failure of electoral processes and referendums. Things were rapidly approaching the point where firearms were necessary.
Only complete savages would run out into the streets and begin shooting politicians as a defacto response to the creation of something like the CIA to replace the OSS.
You idiots think a gun can save you from corruption. But you let private companies in your homes. Give all your private information over to third parties. The days of guns are over. They have you already. The Facebook scandal already proved how you idiots can be manipulated. How did guns help you guys with that?
I would prefer the private company to the government one. Unfortunately, there are no such things as private companies in this day and age. Not at the international scale of the variety you describe. They are neither part of the elected government nor are they part of the free market. They exist as a separate structure of power that serves a different interest, entirely - a power which you are ancillary to, wittingly or not.
Once again, these problems, however, are not something to charge into the streets and begin killing people over.... yet. Rest assured, the contingency existed and would have been enacted. A stay of execution was afforded, however, with the results of the election in 2016.
The only good gun owner is a dead gun owner. So put that gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Join the other thousands of casualties every year. Or just go a start shooting the corrupt government officials. Why wait when it’s too late? Go. Go now. Shoot them. At least I will be entertained.
This is the reason why firearms are the tool of last resort for the civilized person. It is also why you are encouraging such behavior. The problem is that civil wars and chaos rarely end the corruption. The people with the most capital assets can afford to pay for security and production in times when such things are in high demand. They are usually well positioned for market turmoil. They are usually well positioned, geographically. They are well positioned with regard to information and other such things.
If push came to shove, sure - there would be people like me who would make it a personal priority to hunt and kill them - but the fact of the matter is that they have many mind slaves and hired hands to make such a task very difficult. Part of the problem we face is the question of who is corrupt and who deserves to be killed, with people lobbing accusations at each other left and right (myself not exempt from this). There are deceivers and liars within the media and established power structures who try to make the innocent look guilty and the guilty appear as martyrs.
We can go out and start shooting - but there will be no turning back once it starts, and the war will become something that resembles the French Revolution - with a perpetual revolving door of execution as the movement's own leaders are slaughtered just the same as the people they fought to depose.
Perhaps that is a pessimistic view of things. Perhaps it wouldn't be that bad. It is, however, the fear. It is why it is the absolute last measure, as it may very well kill our society.
