Repeal the second amendment, confiscate all privately-owned firearms, improson anyone who resists.
Precisely why we need the 2nd Amendment ^^^.
I'm opposed to this kind of thinking^^ about the 2nd Amendment: that people need guns to be able to shoot at government officials who intend to confiscate their guns. If all three branches of the federal government have decided to ignore the 2nd Amendment and confiscate guns, the right way to react to is comply, not rebel and get violent. I think it was Abe Lincoln who said that in a democracy there is no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
The thing about the 2nd Amendment is that it is part of the Bill of Rights - something which has not been amended since it came into law. So while the 2nd Amendment alone does not protect individual rights, it is part of a larger understanding of individual rights which America was built upon. If all three branches of government outright ignore the Constitution and decide to start confiscating guns, (which is never going to happen...) the correct response is absolutely not to meekly comply. I mean, drawing guns on law enforcement is extremely dangerous, foolish, and not behavior which I would endorse, but in such a hypothetical scenario, It would be imperative for people to use every single one of their other rights to protect their Constitutional rights. If the government ignores the 2nd Amendment, who's to say they won't ignore the 1st Amendment, or any other of your rights? At some point, rights which are not exercised or cherished stop being rights.
