If you don't think the government is going to wage all out war on the citizens - " Do you really think that if there was an uprising, that the government would order an all out assault on entire cities - mowing down both their dissidents as well as supporters? That would just fan the flames for anti-gov't sentiments, and exasperate matters to the point of a full on revolution. Support for the gov't would start dropping rapidly, among both the citizenry as well as many within the gov't as well."

The "we need to own guns so the government doesn't get totalitarian on our asses" argument is moot.

I don't get it.