I believe, and I've submitted this before, if the time has come that we need to hide our weapons, then the time has come that we may need to use them.
I've read the Declaration of Independence a few times lately. It seems to be deja vu all over again. I think this is what keeps patriots at bay:
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. "
But I'm just a dumb ole country boy.