For the Second Amendment absolutists

[MarkD]

I'm with you an this, Adam.
I remember a few years ago I saw a video on Facebook that was obviously taken some time in the 1990s; a woman testifying before the House Judiciary Committee (I recognized Rep. Shumer and Rep. Sensenbrenner). The video lasted about 6 minutes or so. The woman gave very cogent and persuasive arguments about the idea that people need to have the right to own a gun in order to ensure their own safety from nutjobs and/or criminals. I had no disagreement with the first 5.5 minutes or so of the video. But at the very end, she ruined her presentation because she said that people need to be able to protect themselves from "you" -- pointing at the members of the committee!
I posted a comment below the video that I was in agreement with what she was saying until her very last remark. So people need to own a gun so that they can protect themselves from legislators who are legislating?!? One guy congratulated me for that comment, but another guy ended up debating with me for about an entire day, until we both realized that we were getting nowhere and we weren't going to change each other's minds. That second guy tried and tried to defend the theory that we need guns to protect ourselves from government tyranny -- including the phenomenon of standing armies -- but he never made a good argument for that perspective.