The second amendment freaks never wanted to topple an oppressive government, they wanted to shoot their neighbors that they don't like. All that talk was just cover for "I'm a giant pussy with no social skills who can't be trusted to be part of the social contract."
Why do you think The Walking Dead was so popular? They get to pretend all their neighbors are "zombies" that they have every right to kill because they consider them (us) as unthinking monsters. It's always projection.
This 2nd Amendment "freak" (leftist, too) fully realizes that the day I fire a firearm upon the government, I've declared war on said government. Unless I've a sizeable portion of the populace organized beside me, I'm gonna get squished like a cockroach under the heel of a boot.
I have others who depend on me for food and shelter. If I get squished, they lose that.
When the government has taken everything from me, then I'll have nothing left to lose.
As I've said time and time again, me standing up for what's right doesn't matter if I'm standing alone, because then I'm just some lone nut job dead in the street, that nobody will pay attention to.
Organized resistance is effective resistance. Armed minorities are harder to oppress.
Every day the regime reminds us why organization is important.