I'm guessing that's not intended to be sarcasm. But I've got news for you, EVERY government is UNTRUSTWORTHY. One need simply exam the greatest number of deaths are caused not by lone nuts with rifles but by organized government activity. We could go on and on listing the atrocities that Governments (even well meaning ones) have committed.

In the US, our govt. is more tyrannical than at any given point in its past. It can spy on us without cause. It can steal from us without cause. It can arrest us without charge. ALL activities that our forefathers established a government with restrictions on in order to prevent. Sure you may say, if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear. I'm sure that's what was said when the first Nuremburg laws were passed...The government is slowly but surely become less and less answerable to the people that hold the power in this nation, the electorate.

I'm a conservative. I'm a veteran. I happen to think that the men that wrote the Constitution were far smarter than any we have in govt. today. I swore an oath to protect and defend that Constitution. I own a couple of rifles (which I've never fired other than to zero). If the day comes, where there is an attempt to seize weapons from the civilian populace, it will be the day that I get those rifles out and plan to start shooting politicians. It's my fervent hope that day never passes. but if it does my friend you can be sure that it will be the start of a 2nd civil war.

We can go on and on about Gun Control/Seizure in the US, but it will not happen and if by chance, we get to the point that semi-automatic rifles are outlawed... well you can expect the streets to run red with blood. I don't think that's being overly dramatic either. The people that are passionate about gun rights, will not go peaceably into the night.