"We have guns to protect ourselves from our Government" - exactly, Thomas Jefferson asserted that "the strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government". The brainwashed masses & other idiots always forget this very important point, most western governments in the world today are committing war crimes on a daily basis, see Syria for example, but the idiots want to take away the guns from the American citizens and leave only the war criminals & their guard dogs with them, using fabricated terror events as the excuse. I live in a country where we have already been disarmed, UK, so now it is only the war criminals & their guard dogs that have access to firearms which leaves them with no fear when committing their crimes as they know no one can stand against them.