chuckie........... We would ALL learn just how much of a deterrent an well armed populous is, about a week after all guns were confiscated!!!!! Watch the documentary on Athens Tennessee, that actually happened, and so did a rag tag group of Americans that stood up to British Tyranny back in the late 1700s, They call this the American Revolution! They didn't have a chance, against the undisputed MOST POWERFUL MILITARY ON EARTH AT THAT TIME, THE BRITISH EMPIRE!! MAN-UP, OUR FOREFATHER AND FATHERS ARE WATCHING!!Those in power could care less about the 2nd Amendment or armed citizens because they know that absolutely no successful 'uprising' by the peasants will occur, and that the possibility of such an uprising against THEM gets less and less every year, so stop fooling yourself thinking that you and your firearms has any meaning as a deterrent against those supporting a bad government.