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Maybe this should go in philosophy:
If a sizealbe portion of the US population does not believe that a fundamental right to weapons should override what they perceive to be the interest of safety to the nation as a whole, and they pass legislation to curtail the amount of weapons one can acquire and brandish to that end, what would their role be in the event of a civil war in which the weapon holders became incensed enough to abrogate their civic duty to vote in new leaders and instead resorted to force to reestablish their ideology?
Would we have a moral obligation to take up arms against them? The irony would be so thick I doubt we could even walk to the battlefield...=)
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