Hero Rising
To everyone here, we must never base the rights of the just by the actions of the corrupt.
That's absurdly narrow minded.
In any decision, you have to take the positive and compare it to the negative.
On the positive side of having firearms legal, you've got..... Basically nothing. If you try to rebel using the fact that you have simple guns won't work 'cause the government would wreck you with drones, or tanks(I bet you don't have any anti-tank rifles.... Well, in the very least it would be really weird if you did), or any number of things.
In terms of personal safety they actually put you in more danger than they prevent.
And they open up a whole slew of potential needless crimes that we don't need to empower.
There's basically no reason for guns to be legal for civilians. All it does is promote violence.
You aren't taking away the government's advantage over you by having a military rifle. They have better ones. Ones that are useful for sniping. Ones that go through sheets of metal. Ones that they don't have to actually use themselves. Saying you want a gun to stand up to the united states government is like saying you want a toothpick to stand up against a dragon.
You. Would. Get. Slaughtered.
You will not apologize for the man who shot up the theater, or any of the men who shot up schools. But you will not prevent them from getting the power to do that.
And the constitution was specifically made to change with the times. It is a living document, that's why there's an amendment process. The founding fathers were intelligent, probably enough so to think, "Guns are amazing. They're the best weapons of our time, but they're relatively new. A few hundred years ago we were fighting with pointy metal sticks and bows and arrows. A few hundred years in the future, we have no idea whatsoever what the best form of weaponry is. We're going to put in the right to bear arms, because it would be effective in this day and age, and civilians holding guns isn't a bad thing because they're generally these gigantic slow firing weapons, and they're the only way for us to fight wars right now."
Right now?
Guns are powerful. They pale in comparison to fighter jets, tanks, drones, and all the like. If the founding fathers had written the constitution today, they probably wouldn't give civilians gun rights, they'd probably make it so that it was illegal to disarm any individual state's personal military.
To this date, you seem to have given up on the thought of using them for personal defense, and are now claiming that guns would allow you to defend your own rights.
They wouldn't. You're up in arms against something that isn't even happening and you can't give one realistic reason for it to not happen if it ever was going to.